Tag: W. S. Merwin

• remembering W.S. Merwin

  I’ve been absent from this space for about a month now. Lots of good, necessary upheaval in my life. The recent passing of W.S. Merwin has stirred me out of silence, however, not just here but in life. His work always inspires a kind of active silence in me, a listening that’s helped on and off…

  José Angel Araguz

  March 22, 2019

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  blog, creative writing, in memory, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, poetry, reading, Salamander Magazine, Suffolk University, the friday influence, W. S. Merwin, writing

• time travel & W. S. Merwin

  In the spirit of the syllabic breakthrough I mentioned last week in the poem that inspired the title for my latest collection, Until We Are Level Again (Mongrel Empire Press), I share “A Letter to Su T’ung Po” by W. S. Merwin. Merwin has been an inspiration for over a decade. His lyric insight and meditative…

  José Angel Araguz

  March 9, 2018

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  blog, books, creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, journals, literature, Mongrel Empire Press, poetry, reading, the friday influence, Until We Are Level Again, W. S. Merwin

• * My Writing Process Blog Tour!

  Happy Monday, y’all! I’ve been invited to participate in the My Writing Process: Blog Tour by poet extraordinaire, Lisa Ampleman. Here’s some info on Lisa: Lisa Ampleman is the author of a book of poetry, Full Cry (NFSPS Press, 2013), and a chapbook, I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State University Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared…

  José Angel Araguz

  August 4, 2014

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  Aquarius, arts, astrology, blog tour, Cancer, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, James Cummins, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jose Angel Araguz, Leo, Libra, Lisa Ampleman, literature, Miriam Sagan, poetry, Sagitarrius, Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua, Taurus, the friday influence, Virgo, W. S. Merwin, writing

• * youthful counting with W.S. Merwin

  I remember when I came across this week’s poem in 2008. I was living another life on a street called Olive. The newsprint of the journal I was subscribed to at the time was never more precious, seemingly perishable, as when I read and later copied out this lyric by hand. I knew then the…

  José Angel Araguz

  February 28, 2014

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  Aries, arts, astrology, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Jose Angel Araguz, Libra, literature, lyric poems, metaphor, Robert Frost, short lyric poems, syllabics, telegraph, the friday influence, The Shadow of Sirius, Virgo, W. S. Merwin, writing, Youth

• * w. s. merwin & the friday influence

  Dusk in Winter – W. S. Merwin The sun sets in the cold without friends Without reproaches after all it has done for us It goes down believing in nothing When it has gone I hear the stream running after it It has brought its flute it is a long way ***  This week on…

  José Angel Araguz

  October 19, 2012

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  astrology, bookstore, chapbook, Corpus Christi, creative writing, Dusk in Winter, Eugene Oregon, family, fingerprint, Jose Angel Araguz, Libra, literature, love, lyric poems, metaphor, MFA, novels, Pablo Neruda, poetry, poetry workshop, rain, short lyric poems, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, To the Rain, translation, Twenty Love Poems, Virgo, W. S. Merwin, writing

• * thistleburrs & the friday influence

  Song of the Barren Orange Tree – Federico Garcia Lorca *  Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of seeing myself without fruit.   Why was I born among mirrors? The day walks in circles around me, and the night copies me in all its stars.   I want to live…

  José Angel Araguz

  June 15, 2012

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  Arthur Rimbaud, books, bookstore, catnip, Federico Garcia Lorca, Gemini, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, orange tree, poetry, song, Spanish poets, the friday influence, W. S. Merwin, writing