Tag: prose poetry
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recent writings
Been busy with life and emotional happenings, but am hoping to get back into the swing of Influence-related things. Thank you to everybody who read my latest post and would-have-been speech! I greatly appreciate it. I continue to be grateful to have been a finalist. One of the boons has been getting to be featured […]
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one more from Susan Lewis
In my recent microreview & interview of Zoom (The Word Works, 2018) by Susan Lewis, I discussed Lewis’ deftness with the prose poem as working through a push-pull between familiarity and distinction. The traditional structures of sentence and paragraph are subverted in the poems of Zoom with non-traditional phrasing and concepts. In the case of “In Praise of […]
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microreview & interview: Zoom by Susan Lewis
review by José Angel Araguz In a recent conversation about prose poetry, I found myself tasked with defining what makes a prose poem “poetry” exactly. I fell back on my usual starting point, some riffing on Charles Simic’s idea shared in an interview that “[what] makes them poems is that they are self- contained, and […]
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* 2015 end of year reading
Time once again for my end of year reading – which technically this year is more of a first of year reading – so however you feel fit to see it, please do. See it, that is. I have been busy the past 3 weeks reading through the last leg of my reading list for […]
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* a revisit, prose poem thoughts, & thanks
Footnote – James Schuyler The bluet is a small flower, creamy-throated, that grows in patches in New England lawns. The bluet (French pronunciation) is the shaggy cornflower, growing wild in France. “The Bluet” is a poem I wrote. The Bluet is a painting of Joan Mitchell’s. The thick blue runs and holds. All of […]
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* new chapbook – Reasons (not) to Dance – released!!!
I am happy to announce the release of my new chapbook, Reasons (not) to Dance! As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this collection of prose poems and flash fictions imaginatively explores moments of hesitation and celebration in the tradition of the Latin American microcuento as practiced by Ana Maria Shua, Eduardo Galeano, and Agosto Monterroso. […]
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* microcuentos, new work & augusto monterroso
The Dinosaur – Augusto Monterroso When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there. * The above, by the Honduran writer Augusto Monterroso, is credited as being one of the world’s shortest stories. Monterroso is one of my favorite writers in the Latin American microcuento tradition. When I first read him, I was amazed at how much spookiness […]
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* prose poem buzz & Max Jacob
Poem of the Moon There are upon the night three mushrooms that are the moon. As brusquely as the cuckoo sings from a clock, they rearrange themselves at midnight each month. There are in the garden rare flowers that are small sleeping men, one-hundred of them. They are reflections from a mirror. There is in […]
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* what a poem does & Russell Edson
What makes them poems is that they are self-contained, and once you read one you have to go back and start reading it again. That’s what a poem does. (Charles Simic) Charles Simic said the above in regards to his own collection, The World Doesn’t End, which consists of a series of prose poems. I love […]
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