Tag: chapbook
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Shared the above on my Instagram account @poetryamano on this the Day of Mourning with a note on taking care of one’s self during this time of the year. Whether it’s toxic family (here or elsewhere) or simply feeling left out of the big societal pressure that comes with national holidays, be kind to yourselves…
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microreview & interview: Life, One Not Attached to Conditionals by Laura Cesarco Eglin
review by José Angel Araguz The idea of poetry as healing is one that is easily romanticized. This romanticizing comes often with an air of distance: poetry as balm after the fact of hurt. However, there is another facet to healing, one rawer and more immediate, that poetry can tap into. Poetry as stitches being…
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microreview & interview: Love Me, Anyway by Minadora Macheret
review by José Angel Araguz The First Time PCOS Spoke – Minadora Macheret The doctor didn’t believe my periods had disappeared. Most months were painless as I watched all the other girls clutch cramps and bloating— I wanted that too. I was different enough and every 28 days I begged my uterus. Medicine wrestles pubescent…
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writer feature: Adeeba Shahid Talukder
This week’s poetry feature comes from the work of Adeeba Shahid Talukder whose chapbook What Is Not Beautiful is out now from Glass Poetry Press. Talukder’s work was featured here once before in 2012 and I continue to be floored by her consistently engaging lyric sensibility. I actually had the opportunity to get an early read of What Is…
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microreview & interview: Hannah Cohen’s Bad Anatomy
-review by José Angel Araguz There’s a sense of recklessness that feels natural to poetry. By recklessness, I mean less Robin Williams standing on a desk shouting a Whitman poem in Dead Poets Society and more the honesty and nerve involved in trusting language to carry what you mean. It is this latter recklessness that runs…
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microreview & interview: Jennifer Met’s Gallery Withheld
review by José Angel Araguz At the end of “Coming of Age in Idaho,” the second poem in Jennifer Met’s chapbook Gallery Withheld (Glass Poetry Press, 2017), the reader is presented with the phrase “an immovable feast” which hearkens back to Ernest Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast. This reference is key on a number of levels beyond wordplay.…
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new Naos digital chapbook!
Just a quick note to share the release of my latest digital chapbook: Naos Explains Everything Via Crumbs published by Right Hand Pointing. You may remember the persona, Naos, from my first digital chapbook with RHP, Naos: an introduction. This time my cursi philosopher Naos (a mix of Aesop, Diogenes, & Walter Mercado) takes his habit of explaining…
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* new naos poem at Right Hand Pointing!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Right Hand Pointing which includes my poem “Naos Explains Lying.” This poem is another in a new series of poems in the persona of Naos, a character I explored originally in my digital chapbook Naos: an introduction which can be read online. Special…
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* “the pure / holy of instinct”: elizabeth acevedo
I agree with those who hold that one of poetry’s major ambitions should be to refresh the language. Through engagement and interrogation of words shared in common, poems can bring us closer to meaning what we mean. An example of the kind of interrogation I mean is evident in this week’s poem from fellow CantoMundo poet…
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* excerpt from The Divorce Suite!
Just a quick post to follow up on the release of my latest chapbook, The Divorce Suite, published by Red Bird Chapbooks! I’m happy to report that I received my copies. Included in one copy was this guy: I was really stoked to get the first in the print one of 100! I also wanted to…
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