Poetry News:
- — Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers [one can always check NYT for poetry-related articles here] —
- — Sonnets served with a slice of pi —
- — Revisiting North Carolina’s finest poet —
- — “This is a clip from the new Bob Dylan movie. It stars Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.” —
- — Palestinian Poet Blasts Infighting —
- — He felt that doing the work was a rehearsal for the work itself, and each rehearsal then became its own work [Thanks to Helen Frost for the link] —
- — Poetry of the beach —
This is from Crossing the Water. (I disagree & like it better than Ariel and I like how the metaphors act like small bombs of surprise as you read the poems.) And I wish she’d've written more poems like this because whoo:
Maudlin
Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag
In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin
Gibbets with her curse the moon’s man
Faggot-bearing Jack in his crackless egg:
Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig
He kings it, navel-knit to no groan,
But at the price of a pin-stitched skin
Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.
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