Tag: poetry community
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intuiting with Mary Oliver
The beginning of the school year for me is always a time of advice. New students come into the fray of doing the work to better their lives via education, making the necessary sacrifices of time, energy, and finances. It’s a sensitive position, and I work hard to be sensitive to it. Whether the topic […]
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summering with William Carlos Williams
The end of summer is a ways off, but with the start of school there is a change in summer’s energy at least. For me, I’m bracing to become some version of those balloon figures you see at car dealerships, the ones that are flung in various directions depending on the wind. That’s what teaching […]
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one more from Steven Sanchez
In my recent microreview & interview of Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications) by Steven Sanchez, I spoke about Sanchez’s gift for poetic empathy. In the same way that a poem is never alive until somebody reads it, so is empathy unable to be present unless another does the work of listening to someone’s trouble and making room […]
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microreview & interview: Phantom Tongue by Steven Sanchez
review by José Angel Araguz Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications) by Steven Sanchez begins with “On the Seventh Day,” a poem depicting the speaker poring over images of male models in the Sunday ads—”glossy men” that “look like my G.I. Joe / if his clothes weren’t painted on”—then cutting and pasting body parts, fashioning ideal versions […]
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new work at Sugar House Review!
Happy to share that my work is being included in this Sneak Peek of the latest issue of Sugar House Review! Check out the text and audio of my poem “On the Times I Don’t Remember the Right Words for Things!” This sneak peek includes work by Emma Aylor, Craig Blais, and Tamara L. Panici […]
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with Rae Armantrout
This summer has me putting in office hours on campus, spending the mornings thinking through the syllabi & co. for the courses I’ll be teaching in the fall. I then, to varying success, allow myself time in the afternoon to work on writing projects, including a nonfiction essay collection, a book of poems in Spanish, […]
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climbing with lucille clifton
I recently read an insightful essay by Lisa Knopp on the idea of “perhapsing” as found in creative nonfiction. Perhapsing is a move that allows a writer to speculate in the face of the facts; that is, not make things up, but to come to terms with the limits of what is known, and to […]
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microreview & interview - it’s the soul that’s erotic: an essay on adélia prado
review by José Angel Araguz Early in his essay-turned-chapbook it’s the soul that’s erotic: an essay on adélia prado (Orison Books), poet Ilya Kaminsky speaks of Adélia Prado’s work as being in the mystic tradition. He then promptly delves into the questions and assumptions that come along with references to mysticism. Noting that “the term mystic […]
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new review of Until We Are Level Again
Just a quick post to share the most recent review of my book Until We Are Level Again (Mongrel Empire Press) by Valerie Duff-Strautmann over at Salamander. Duff-Strautmann reviews my book alongside Natalie Shapero’s Hard Child (Copper Canyon Press). Please check it out! Thank you to Valerie Duff-Strautmann for spending time with my work and for all the […]
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poetry feature: Dah
This week’s poem is drawn from the poetry feature submissions! For guidelines on how to submit work, see the “submissions” tab above. * One of my favorite things about reading a new poet is being introduced to their ways of noticing. Whether it’s what they notice in the world around them or their interior world, this kind […]
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