Tag: tanka
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* shifting with yosano akiko
This week I’m sharing tanka by Yosano Akiko as translated by Roger Pulvers.* In a previous post about her work, I focused on the role of tension in her poems. This time around, I have selected tanka that shift narratives midway. Line by line, the three poems below develop their narrative arc, only to shift…
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* sharing some news & some tanka!
Just a quick post to officially announce that my second full length collection of poetry, Small Fires, has just been accepted for publication in 2017 from FutureCycle Press. This collection will feature the poems “Joe” and “El Rio” among others. FutureCycle are also the same good people who published my prose poem/flash fiction chapbook, Reasons (not) to…
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* short lyrics: (pre)spring mix
As I am on the road – in Corpus Christi, Texas promoting Everything We Think We Hear to be exact – I thought I would do a short, fun post of some seasonal short lyrics. Could be that the winters in Cincinnati are tough that I’ve got spring on my mind already. I’d like to say…
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* new online chapbook released!!!
“In the book of flight, plastic bags are brought in to do the work of clouds. Dead leaves rest in the margins. Grass clippings, eyelashes, fingernails: errata in the book of flight.” (José Angel Araguz from The Book of Flight) Happy to announce the release of my latest online chapbook The Book of Flight published by Essay…
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* tanka contest news!
Just a quick post to announce having placed 2nd in the 2015 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest. Here is my placing tanka: table to table the smile of the waitress never stops working its wings José Angel Araguz Cincinnati, Ohio Check out the rest of the results here. Thank you to judges Carole MacRury and…
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* tanka, update, & news
after the discharge orders we idle at a stop sign I haven’t heard the birds til now — Jose Angel Araguz * Just a quick post to update on life as well as to share news of a sale. Update: I am happy to report that I was discharged from the hospital Friday afternoon and…
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* tanka & short post
from the 8th floor a gray mist over Cincinnati what holds all of this together? — Jose Angel Araguz * Keeping it short due to being hospitalized earlier this week for some stomach issues. I’m writing this on Thursday, still in my hospital room. More news to come. I hope all of you are well.…
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* new work at american tanka
Just a quick post to announce the release of American Tanka’s issue 25: “between cries.” The issue starts off with one of my own tanka, which can be read here. In preparing to share the news, I found myself sketching back into the scene that inspired the tanka. Here is my best rendition of the…
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* from hands to manos
This week’s post is a meditation on form via sharing some new publications. First, the good folks over at Rattle have recently shared the content of their Summer 2014 issue online which includes my own poem “Abandoned Church.” Rattle is unique in that they ask for some insight into the work via the contributor’s bio, which…
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* another world with robert bly
The Moose – Robert Bly The Arctic moose drinks at the tundra’s edge, swirling the watercress with his mouth. How fresh the water is, the coolness of the far North. A light wind moves through the deep firs. Reading this week, I came across these two short lyrics by Robert Bly. I love…
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