Tag: poet
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writer feature: Chelsea Bunn
This week I’m excited to share a poem by Chelsea Bunn. I’m always a fan of poems that are able to evoke through juxtaposition. In “Missed Connections” (below), what is being juxtaposed is the speaker’s present surroundings with the memories that the surroundings evoke. This evocation is set up first through the clear naming of…
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writer feature: Trust Tonji
This week’s poem, “The thing about colors,” is a fine example of how poets often have to be unsettled in language. For instance, there is the performance of language in the public realm, where we do our best to honor one another in regards to pronoun preference, ability, and sexuality as well as cultural and…
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noticing with katha pollitt
I’m always surprised when a poem turns around and offers me something that opens up a whole other personal meditation. In this week’s poem “What I Understood” by Katha Pollitt, the moment happens in two lines before the end: people are saved every day by a sparrow, a foghorn, a grassblade, a tablecloth. These two…
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arte-ing with vicente huidobro
This week I’m happy to share a translation of a poem by Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro. What moves me about this week’s poem is how closely the logic of the lines play out some of Huidobro’s ideas on poetry. For Huidobro, the poet was a “maker” and creator of “new worlds that never existed before,…
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* heartening with jm miller
Paper Sparrows (At the Museum) – JM Miller a slip of paper no larger than a dollar records the scale of value for a slave. Rows of age and rows of worth, the black body’s gains & losses over time. You see the paper is degrading, yellowing tree fibers from an oily thumb nearly enough…
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* microreview & interview: jm miller
For this microreview & interview, I present close readings of two poems from JM Miller’s collection Wilderness Lessons (FutureCycle Press, 2016), as well as share some insights from the poet on the work in their own words. Field Notes (The Arcade Poem) – JM Miller For fifty cents you can sharpen a fang, sink your claw…
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* new CR blog post!
Quick post to announce my latest “What’s Poetry Got to Do with It?” column for the Cincinnati Review blog. Check out as I make connections between poetry and tarot. Warrior princess, Xena, is said to make an appearance. See you Friday! José
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* reading with wayne miller
This week, I thought I’d share a poem from Wayne Miller’s latest collection, Post- (Milkweed Editions), which I wrote about earlier this week for the Cincinnati Review blog. In my review of the book, I spoke about poems that engaged with the idea of inheritance in relation to the nature of language itself. This week’s poem, “Inside the Book,” explores…
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* two poems at The Boiler Journal!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of The Boiler Journal which features two poems from a manuscript-in-progress. Read them here. “Forging” and “The Broken Escalator at the Train Platform” both come from my years living in New Jersey/New York when I would commute to work and grad school. This…
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