Tag: pantoum
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microreview & interview: House of McQueen by Valerie Wallace
review by José Angel Araguz In the note for “Let’s make a dress from these,” from Valerie Wallace’s House of McQueen (Four Way Books), we learn that the poem’s title is a quote from Alexander McQueen himself, spoken “as he walked into his workroom with a handful of red medical slides.” In the same spirit of…
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John Yau’s “Overnight”
A friend of mine shared this week’s poem – “Overnight” by John Yau – printed off Poets.org’s poem-a-day series (a great resource for poetry for those unfamiliar). I had the distinct of experiencing this poem by first reading it aloud in the coffeeshop where we meet. [If you’d like to try this out at home – which…
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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…
The Friday Influence 