Poetry
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Telephone Project #2
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A. Van Jordan, Allison Benis White, Andre Hulet, Aracelis Girmay, David Caplan, David Yezzi, Ed Skoog, Erika Meitner, Ernest Hilbert, Gerald Maa, H. L. Hix, J. P. Dancing Bear, Jason Schneiderman, Jennifer Chang, Jennifer Kronovet, Jenny Browne, Joanne Diaz, John Murillo, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Kazim Ali, Kimiko Hahn, Kristina Jipson, Marilyn Nelson, Meena Alexander, Paula Bohince, Roger Sedarat, Ross Gay, Ross White, Tara BettsA conversation in poems, featuring original work from Kimiko Hahn, Aracelis Girmay, John Murillo, Roger Sedarat, Jason Schneiderman, Jennifer Kronovet, Ross Gay, H. L. Hix, A. Van Jordan, Marilyn Nelson, Allison Benis White, Kathryn Stripling Byer, J. P. Dancing Bear, Meena Alexander, Paula Bohince, Tara Betts, Kristina Jipson, Ernest Hilbert, David Yezzi, Joanne Diaz, Kazim Ali, Ed Skoog, Erika Meitner, David Caplan, Jennifer Chang, Andre Hulet, Gerald Maa, Jenny Browne, and Ross White.
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Scavenger Loop
“Who would I show it so unprocessed to—” David Baker rummages through dozens of texts, finding words for his mother’s death in an America of endless manufacture, modification and forestalled decay.
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Antiphon
“It occupies me: this errand out of narrowness.” Christina Davis’s slender lines send the self out in search of the world, “Thru self to arrive / at selves and thru selves / the self again—”
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Until The Beast Was Slain
“repurposed rubble erect / for these dirt counties’ / mad whelps reluctantly / the pity funds trickle.” Adam Tavel reconstructs the horrors of the Wicomico County Almshouse, twice obscured.
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The Night Grove
“The torturer wants to know how one minute blood, one minute / snow. ” In a room where “fictive or lesser / realities kept entering,” Kerri Webster encircles the ghosts of violence, tenderness, and fear.
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from To Banquet with the Ethiopians
“He’d never seen the Iliad.” Irreverent and imaginative, Philip Brady sings of Homer’s first encounter with the alphabet.
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Short Takes on Long Poems, Volume 6
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David Micah Greenberg, Idra Novey, Robert Archambeau, Jee Leong Koh, Joshua Rivkin, Connie Voisine, Sophie Cabot Black, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Jill McDonough, Keith Ekiss and Sarah Blake weigh in (briefly) on their favorite long poems.
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Short Takes on Long Poems, Volume 5
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Joy Katz, Craig Morgan Teicher, Chris Tonelli, Joanne Diaz, Geffrey Davis, Erika Meitner, Ada Limón, Dave Lucas, Rusty Morrison, Averill Curdy and Lisa L. Moore weigh in (briefly) on their favorite long poems.
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Three Erasures
Scraping away at books from the World War II era in the Pacific, Collier Nogues exposes “the dark loud movements of war.”
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The Deal
“My mother’s doctor tells me, here’s the deal / She has six months to live, a year at most.” In a poem whose tight form makes music of insufficiency, Lesléa Newman tries to record the loss of her mother.
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What is Death
“What does infinity look like? It hurts. // Its bodilessness hurts.” In Hartsdale, when “It’s no / longer possible for anyone to stop where she is,” Kathleen Ossip wonders her way into a poem of cycling, elastic, uncertain beauty.
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from Milk in a Pail
Thorpe Moeckel records “the way the udder / shrinks slow to shrivel after being so full” and hundreds of other entailing details that compose, in his intricate telling, the many lives that make up life on a farm.
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The Visible Boy
“in the book as I remember it is surrounded by / parentheses / The illustrator / keeps him moving black / Parentheses like as if his brown skin struck / black / Sparks on the air with every step.” Shane McCrae’s recollection of a 1940s children’s book reanimates the terrible power of its depictions and their violent persistence in memory and beyond.
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Soft Power
“Your pupils widen on all / Adra prison will swallow. / Wives rock, fingering their beads.” While her husband observes political trials in Syria, V. Penelope Pelizzon wanders “the republic of poetry,” seeking language to account for their encounters there.
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from The Woman With No Name
“How to cull the fuckery that follows a woman who does as she wants?” Michael Luis Dauro’s female gunslinger chases the fantasy of violence and revels in the history-heavy liberty of words.