Tag: William Carlos Williams
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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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clarity with Chuck Wachtel
I’ve been revising in an odd style lately, keep writing notes to myself like: more of this Objectivist vibe, or: you’re not Williams, sorry. A lot of the poems I’m working on in this way are written in short lines, with close enjambment, definitely in the style of the Objectivists, a group which includes George Oppen, Charles…
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* reading from The Divorce Suite!
September ended up being such a busy month that I never got around to sharing more excerpts from The Divorce Suite (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Luckily, a recent outing to the Spring Grove Cemetery provided a nice background and inspiration for a reading. Below are the poems “Gift” and “The Accordion Heart” along with a clip of my…
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* new post for the CR blog!
Just a quick post to share my latest installment of “What’s Poetry Got to Do with It?” over at the Cincinnati Review blog. In this post I do a short survey of three Virgo poets: Charles Wright, Kay Ryan, and William Carlos Williams. Could be that working on this CR post last week is what…
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* nosing with quevedo & williams
One of the more exciting moments in reading is coming across texts that show a writer’s own reading creeping into their writing. In my own work, I can think of an orange I inadvertantly stole from a Gary Soto poem as well as a prayer reformulated from an Ernest Hemingway short story. These are…
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* Fanny Howe & the friday influence
(poem from Robeson Street) – Fanny Howe Pushing children in plaid & silver prams us mothers were dumpy, hunched in the damp and our redlipped infants sucked on their strange fingers …
The Friday Influence 