Category: good poems
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Meet me at the buffet
In re: yesterday’s post–if you have reading recommendations, please post them in the comments.
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Found again
My mottoAs I live and learn, is: Dig and Be DugIn Return —Langston Hughes Also, I got a little older over the weekend. Not a lot, but just a smidge. That’s what happens when you celebrate the anniversary of your 29th birthday. I’m calling it “lyric aging.”
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LOCUSPOINT: Phoenix
Phoenix is an awkward commingling of the ancient and the new. Its name pays tribute to the way it was developed, built over (and using) a centuries-old canal system developed by the Hohokam people, who either vanished or abandoned their settlement there. But a sense of history like this isn’t pervasive. Since 2000 its population…
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Man on Man Action
My review of the British publication of Dan Chiasson’s Natural History and Other Poems is on display over at Eyewear: Chiasson’s work can be characterized by a deep, entrenched sadness. Poems frequently find themselves, sometimes inexplicably, worrying the concepts of death, decomposition, departure—even the implication of death, what Chiasson refers to as “the kitsch /…
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Wayne Miller, This is For You.
I think Wayne Miller’s poem in Barn Owl Review is one of my favorite pieces I’ve read in a long time. I love him for being so brilliant, and I hate him for not being able to do it myself. I will write more about BOR soon, because the whole issue is a trip. Another…
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LOCUSPOINT’s Best
Here are the poems I nominated from LOCUSPOINT for this year’s “Best of the Net” anthology: Renee Rossi, “Movements” Wendy Mnookin, “Blue” Erin Bertram, “Novena” Kristy Odelius, “Aubade, Big Eyes” Paul Martinez-Pompa, “The Body As Weapon, As Inspiration” Simone Muench, “|To give a child an idea of scarlet or orange, of sweet or bitter, I…
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