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Poems I’ve liked a lot so far in 2012
The Letter (Linda Gregg) I’m not feeling strong yet, but I am taking good care of myself. The weather is perfect. I read and walk all day and then walk to the sea. I expect to swim soon. For now I am...
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Seven Poems for Twenty-Seven
(Philip Larkin has a poem about being twenty-six, but big surprise, it is super mega depressing! I’m sure if Phil had ever had a night out on the town in Medellin with some guaro during the Feria de...
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Poems for 27 1/2+
The Camel (James Tate) I recieved the strangest thing in the mail today. It’s a photograph of me riding a camel in the desert. And yet I have never ridden a camel, or even been in a desert. I am...
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Head of the Year
The moon is dark tonight, a new moon for a new year. It is hollow and hungers to be full. It is the black zero of beginning. Now you must void yourself of injuries, insults, incursions. Go with empty...
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more poetry
To Be Alive (Gregory Orr) To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That’s crudely put, but… If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music? What Is Poetry (Adrian Mitchell) Look at those...
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Madness, Rack & Honey / Art & Fear
I love Mary Ruefle. I kind of want to BE Mary Ruefle. Or at least my idea of her, which involves living in rural Vermont, reading sixty-something books a year, loving Emily Dickinson, criticizing...
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THE TOURISTS
My pamphlet with Daunt Books was released today! It’s called “The Tourists,” it’s set in Colombia and here is the cover: You can get it here or on Amazon. Please consider checking it out; I’d be VERY...
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Exciting news!
A short story I wrote last year for Lighthouse Literary Journal has been longlisted for a prize in the Sunday Times! Very exciting! I am dead chuffed, as they say here in in England (at least I THINK...
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5 years of poetry
I have been reading a poem-a-day and posting it online (first on a livejournal account, then cross-posting on tumblr) for five years now (so basically since Februrary 24th, 2010, sitting in my frigid...
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Amazing Emily Kendal Frey quotes
I know nothing about poetry. Virtually nothing. But I do know is that this collection spoke to me on a deeply personal level, and I enjoyed reading it very much. How did it do this? And why? How does...
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Optimistic poems :)
Letter to Kizer from Seattle (Richardo Hugo) Dear Condor: Much thanks for that telephonic support from North Carolina when I suddenly went ape in the Iowa tulips. Lord, but I’m ashamed. I was afraid,...
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Some poems; one quote
Body, Remember Body, remember that night you pretended it was a film, you had a soundtrack running through your head, don’t lie to me body, you know what it is. You’re keeping it from me, the stretched...
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return to spain
Just like three years ago I went to Spain, the south this time, I lost my passport for the second time in seven months, I miraculously found it, my friends are the most amazing people ever, I ate bread...
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A few poems
Good Bones Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from...
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Cheltenham & UK Proof cover
I have been very busy with edits recently (both for the collection and the dissertation) and have thus sadly had less time to read for pleasure than I would like. Hopefully this will change soon....
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Quotes for January
“Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.” —Carlos Fuentes Maeve Brennan’s advice to writer Tillie Olsen (as seen on Twitter) “Surviving Love”...
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Goodbye May
Personalia (Mary Ruefle) When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following...
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What a tough week for women! I donated to RAINN. And I read a lot of poetry online, which I hadn’t done in a while. Here are some I found that I liked: A Whole New Poetry Beginning Here (Adrienne Rich)...
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May/June Books
Like a lonesome cowboy and a wanderin’ hobo, I will soon be taking my leave of this humble island – for a month, that is. I survived Game of Thrones, I survived the semester, I survived many big...
View ArticleQuotes and poems from ‘The Unknown University’
pg. 13 (The poet doesn’t wish to be greater than others) Not wealth or fame or even just poetry Maybe this is the only way to avoid fear Settle into fear like one inhabiting...
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