Tag: syllabics
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into the octaves part three
This post is the third and last of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD (check out the first post here and the second here). For this final post, I’m sharing a sequence that did not make it into…
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into the octaves part two
This post is the second of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD (check out the first post here). Around the time of putting the early drafts of these sequences together, I remember having a conversation with a…
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into the octaves part one
This will be the first of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD as of this week! Back when I started experimenting with the octave form, I drew inspiration from a series of poems by Edward…
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new book released!
I’m happy to share that my third poetry collection, Until We Are Level Again, is officially out from Mongrel Empire Press! It’s available for purchase here. This collection incorporates excerpts from my first chapbook, The Wall (Tiger’s Eye Press), into a sequence of poems that engages further with ideas of language, identity, family, work, and death. I…
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* new chapbook: Corpus Christi Octaves
I am happy to announce that my new chapbook – Corpus Christi Octaves – is officially available from Flutter Press! Purchasing info here. This collection is made up of two elegiac sequences and an interlude. My goal with the two sequences is to honor my friends both for what they meant to me but also for…
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* digital chapbook released!
I am happy to announce that my digital chapbook “Naos: an introduction” is officially out on the Right Hand Pointing site! Here’s the “Introduction to an Introduction”: Once again, Anne Rice is at fault. The VHS copy I had of Interview with the Vampire came with an introduction by the author in which she spoke of…
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* organizing the world with Donald Justice
This week’s poem “Bus Stop” by Donald Justice rounds out the recent syllabic kick on the Influence. I recently read an illuminating essay by Justice where he breaks down some of the thinking that went into the poem, both the conceptual thinking and the structural. He describes walking his dog around his neighborhood in California…
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* considering Thom Gunn
Writing poetry has in fact become a certain stage in my coping with the world, or in the way I try to understand what happens to me and inside me. Perhaps I could say that my poetry is an attempt to grasp, with grasp meaning both to take hold of in a first bid at…
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