Tag: Jamaal May

• * 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…

  José Angel Araguz

  February 6, 2015

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• * strangering the everyday with jamaal may

  Reading Jamaal May’s Hum this week, I found much to admire – he works out not one but two solid sestinas and a pantoum as well as some versatile lyrical free verse throughout. What moved me most is his ability to move each poem beyond formal concerns and invest it with some emotional weight and insight. The…

  José Angel Araguz

  July 25, 2014

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