Tag: Charles Wright
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raining with Martorell & Pizarnik
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to do a small reading at Linfield College’s Miller Fine Arts Center. The Linfield Gallery is in its last week of hosting Antonio Martorell’s solo exhibit “Rain/Lluvia.” In talking about the origins of the exhibit, Martorell told Linfield Gallery: “When the opportunity came my way to bring an…
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* new post for the CR blog!
Just a quick post to share my latest installment of “What’s Poetry Got to Do with It?” over at the Cincinnati Review blog. In this post I do a short survey of three Virgo poets: Charles Wright, Kay Ryan, and William Carlos Williams. Could be that working on this CR post last week is what…
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* souling with charles wright
August always has me revisiting Charles Wright’s work as well as the work of other August babies like me. This week’s poem is from his book Sestets in which he does marvels six lines at a time. Here, he takes us from a sunset sky to an implication of the soul as a canary and the…
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* the 200th post: a cento
Well, it had to happen: we’ve reached the 200th post on this blog! To celebrate, I decided to create a cento – a patchwork poem made by selecting lines from other people’s poems to create a singular poem (citing one’s sources, of course) – by going through all the posts published since I started this…
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* an apologetic annotated anatomy of a reading
This past Tuesday night I had the pleasure of taking part in Pretty Owl Poetry’s Online Reading Series. The reading/interview was conducted through Google+ and was a blast despite a few technical difficulties. Because of the nature of the interview – specifically the part in which I am given permission to ramble and bumble in…
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* a stone’s throw memory with charles wright
This week I’d like to celebrate Charles Wright being named the new U.S. Poet Laureate. I’ve always suspected him to be an introvert, but his reaction to the news sinches it: At times self-effacing, Wright shies away from the public eye and was reluctant to take the post. “My wife kept nudging me to do…
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* snow! with Charles Wright
Snow is starting to become a regular thing in our neighborhood. Ani and I remarked on (read: laughed at) our mutual inexperience earlier this week when we began to see little bits of the stuff flying about one afternoon. What is that? Is that fluff? Gotta be, like cotton, or foam, something, right? I won’t…
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* John Ashbery, the pit & the friday influence
Uptick – John Ashbery We were sitting there, and I made a joke about how it doesn’t dovetail: time, one minute running out faster than the one in front it catches up to. That way, I said, there can be no waste. Waste is virtually eliminated. To come back for a few hours to…
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