Tag: poetry community
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suggestion via Rita Dove
Suggestion is a key element to poetry. Whether it’s a matter of word choice, how using the word “broken,” say, suggests its opposite, “fixed”; or within the structure of a metaphor itself, the juxtaposition of two things bringing to mind a further connection, suggestion is one word for poetry’s ability to tap into language’s conspiratorial […]
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one more from Minadora Macheret
In my recent microreview & interview of Minadora Macheret’s Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press), I spent time unpacking the collection’s interrogation of disbelief and the role it plays in living with disability. From the disbelief of medical professionals too quick to dismiss a person due to age and gender, to the personal disbelief of someone with […]
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microreview & interview: Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
review by José Angel Araguz The Latinx experience is often reduced to ideas of duality. There’s the phrase “ni de aqui, ni de allá” (neither from here nor from there). There’s Gustavo Peréz Firmat’s idea of “living on the hyphen,” which acknowledges the duality of having a hyphpenated identity, in his case Cuban-American. Even one […]
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poetryamano project: may 2017
This week I’m sharing another installment archiving my Instagram poetry project entitled @poetryamano (poetry by hand). This account focuses on sharing poems written by hand, either in longhand or more experimental forms such as erasures/blackout poems and found poems. Below are highlights from May 2017. This month found me going further with erasures. Along with working out […]
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vital signs & 3 word poems
Happy November everyone! Just a quick post to share the above 3 word poem from the poetryamano project. A note about 3 word poems: I picked up the form from reading The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño years ago. I became fascinated by the punk rock way Bolaño’s poet characters spoke about the art. This […]
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writing prompt: shape tracing
This week I’m introducing a new type of post focused on writing prompts! These will come in part out of my teaching background and will also be informed by work I’m currently exploring. This week’s poem, “have I mattered to my / phone…” in particular involves a visual component that doesn’t travel well to Instagram. […]
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music-ing with Ntozake Shange
In a workshop a few years ago, I had the honor of getting to hear distinguished poet Carmen Tafolla talk about voice and its role in poetry. She said that we should consider human voice a chemical component of the poem, that through it, heat and energy were summoned to bring language to life. This week’s […]
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poetryamano project: april 2017
This week I’m sharing the fourth installment archiving my Instagram poetry project entitled @poetryamano (poetry by hand). This account focuses on sharing poems written by hand, either in longhand or more experimental forms such as erasures/blackout poems and found poems. Below are highlights from April 2017. This month found me going further with erasures. I was working […]
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recap of my recent Linfield College reading!
* Just a quick note to share this thoughtful recap of my recent poetry reading at Linfield College up at Medium! I read on September 11th as part of the Readings at the Nick series held at Linfield’s Nicholson Library. Here’s “Alabanza” by Martín Espada, the poem I read to start things off. Thank you […]
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birding with Edward Hirsch
This week’s poem - “Branch Library” by Edward Hirsch - takes me back to being a kid getting dropped off at the Greenwood Library in Corpus Christi, Texas (an experience I recently wrote a short essay about). Those early experiences of wandering stacks are with me in some small part to this day as I […]
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