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NaNoPoMo #1
LOL yeah I’m getting a late start haha.
I always feel a slight tinge of I don’t know, guilt, when I do a blind translation. Like I have to apologize. Sorry Goethe.
Found
Each going is wild
so much fur here,
and such night zoos,
they wear me inside.
I’m shut in each sadness
one blue machine standing,
with stern tender light,
with angle-shine.
Will each [...]
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Poem by an American
(not a draft but I fear I will be adding to it)
Poem by an American
I.
Tags: poem, Poetry
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Poetry News for November 21, 2007
Poetry News:
— Poets’ Opportunities Greater than Ever Before; Arthur Guiterman Tells How to Make a Living Out of Verse and Gives a List of Don’ts for Aspiring Poets ;- Advises Writing on Topical Themes By Joyce Kilmer. —
— Defending the M.F.A. [link good for a few days] —
— Mr. Wilson’s work was less effective in [...]
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Poetry News for November 7, 2007
Poetry News:
— New lit mag alert —
— Afghan woman poet Nadia Anjuman remembered two years on —
— TO make one anthology is not necessarily a proof of courage; it may be merely a sign of ignorance. But to dare the wrath of neglected poets and of their friends the critics a second time, is bravery. [...]
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Whoa
At 1:20pm, 40 years ago today, I was born. Just being here at all is pretty miraculous — I was supposed to arrive in late January. (I weighed 34 ounces when I was born. In 1967. And I’m alive.) I spent about 3 months in an incubator, which I’m sure fcked me up on [...]
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Poetry News for September 11, 2007
Just some poems today:
— Lorine Niedecker “When Ecstasy is Inconvenient” —
— Mary Ruefle “From A Little White Shadow” —
— Muriel Rukeyser “Metaphor to Action” —
— Susan Howe “From Hinge Picture” —
— Wislawa Szymborska “Consolation” —
Tags: Lorine Niedecker, Mary Ruefle, Muriel Rukeyser, Poems, Poetry, poets, Susan Howe, Wislawa Szymborska
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Once upon a time
For my sister, Intissar, and for Dr. Clarissa Pinkola EstésOnce upon a timewhen crows flocked to the illuminated clouds of dreams, gold jingledwith midnight and the cooled sky sustained this wildness. But sooncame the reign of the Evil King, and his dazed kingdom had nursed far too longon bad tidings presented as medicine, to be [...]
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Poetry News for August 12, 2007
Poetry News:
— “That letters, words and sentences are all involved in reading is nothing new, but finding that their contributions to reading rate is additive is startling” —
— Borges and Lowell —
— Shhh, the ‘poetry librarian’ is in town —
— Eight Poems by Pierre Reverdy —
— English literature, as we know it, begins with the [...]
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The Reanimation of Ted Williams’ Frozen Head
The Reanimation of Ted Williams’ Frozen Head
It is almost imperceptible — the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.
Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,
which means science is [...]
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Frankie Silver(s)
A lot of my Gran’s folks lived in Burke County, NC & around Morganton. For a few generations, the women in that part of my family never married, had kids by multiple partners, and also gave their own surname to their kids (instead of the man’s). So I haven’t had much luck with my [...]
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Plath Math
I apologize to any of you who (like me a little bit) are on the color-blind side. I couldn’t resist posting this, my favorite poem. Makes me cry every time. I think it is the sheer sound of it.
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Black Rook in Rainy Weather
On the stiff twig up there
Hunches a wet black rook
Arranging and rearranging its [...]
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Psilocybin Mushrooms Sprout at the Arizona Community College
Memo to school maintenance personnel:
given our recent inclement weather,
there’s been an unprecedented upswell
in fungi here, and in particular
the psilocybin mushroom (see attached).
As this fungus is a psychoactive
it must be immediately dispatched.
Psilocybin mushrooms are attractive
nuisances for the students and they pose
a health danger. Any personnel caught
with these psychedelic mushrooms may lose
their position so please give it [...]
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