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Writing Problems: Zombie Poetry!
"The world is gone, I have to carry you"
"be the body-of-the-one-looked-upon"
"her vigorous soul whizzed free"
"where a dark lake never leaves the air"
"concealed in your face-folds"
"short threads are not enough"
"The Alps neglect their curtains"
"in a heavy light like yellow onions"
"Unknowing I know her, a body on its way to nothing"
"into silence falls piecemeal before her"
"driven, desperate to enter the other"
"the very air wincing with light"
"without self, without center"
"goes into desire, not past it"
"LOSE AND WASTE NO MORE TIME, POET!"
"And the shaggy green cartilage"
Reading Groups: Lynn Melnick's Refusenik
Reading Groups: Nazim Hikmet's Poems of Nazim Hikmet
Reading Groups: Russell Edson's Little Mr. Prose Poem
Writing Problems: What to do about poetry monsters?
"I'm particularly interested in tasting butterflies"
"written by God on the skin of a calf"
"Where the marble is worn away"
"leaping and scarlet into the sea"
"You are mine, my crescent-shaped radiance"
"It never harmed anyone, yet it never helped anyone"
The Sharpener: two year anniversary
"In the black depths of principle"
"a precocious sound, it is a bite"
"As if they could not hoist themselves"
Reading Groups: CM Burroughs's Master Suffering
Reading Groups: Jill Osier's The Solace is Not the Lullaby
Reading Groups: Alice Oswald's Nobody
Craft: In Defense of Chapbooks
"Seasons of our two solitudes"
"the crystal turns to steam and air"
Craft: Gerald Stern and the Ecstatic
"I want them raucous and want them near"
"Orange bottles scattered around"
"the tight black street becomes unzipped"
"But I want what I am promised"
"Sometime I think I'll live that way"
"While they went seaward to the sea-mouths"
"This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself"
"frontier to our concurrences"
Guided Poetry Reading Groups Winter/Spring 2023
"an old language spoken into the pines"
"already tracing a vein to his heart"
"No, it is a statement of joy"
"tilting toward the least sound"
Reading Groups: Laura Mullen's Complicated Grief
Reading Groups: Mary Leader's Beyond the Fire
Reading Groups: Camille Guthrie's Diamonds
"the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye"
"To be in any form, what is that?"
"My words mean only what they say"
"Earth is a waxen cell of the world comb"
"early fall exists; aftertaste, afterthought"
"the shadow that I cast is the shadow that I cast"
"clear line, uninterrupted stretch"
"whose eyeballs dart Red fire"
"Then sleep takes this away also"
"oftener to my hurt no leader at all"
"images of self-confusednesses"
"cut, piled and roofed with glitter"
Reading Groups: Szilárd Borbély
Reading Groups: Chet’la Sebree
Reading Groups: Rachel Mannheimer
"The dead increase their invisible honey"
"streak of chaparral across sand"
"stumble, bumble, mistake, fail; yet"
"Two bore, bore what, a mussed ash, ash where there is tin"
"fold unfold above river beds"
"changing inside, little and little"
"While you look, her edges crystallize"
"Honey, let's look at it again"
"original writer or by some other"
Writing Problems: "Is My Manuscript Good Enough?"
"shimmering harp-runs for the nerves"
"Only the body eating the body?"
A new Sunday morning reading group
Guided Poetry Reading Book Groups
"and years of microbits of flora"
"tool who only worships space"
"The rest is the woodpile's reverie"
"howling from the climacteric"
"dryadic, gothic, fanatic against"
"My own glassed stairs, to wind"
"Abomunists reject everything except snowmen"
"Supremely true each to its separate self"
"One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted"
"If I am fernal, it's fern country"
"Death, the birthmark, was growing on all of us"
"Soon the sky will leave the river alone"
"What is the wind, what is it."
"the revolt of immense estates"
"moving its char along his tubes"
Guided Poetry Reading Group Survey
"is this how it's going to be?"
"Everybody loose and at a distance"
"the myth of originary wholeness"
"sealing love to the sharp darkness"
"its lines curve as in mental orrery"
"at once alive in a blaze of green fire"
"The Palate of the Hate departs -"
"free flight into the worldless"
This Saturday: The Art of Revision
"There is an awful yes in every constitution"
"rising to fall, falling to rise"
"Men think they are better than grass"
"You will learn toads from diamonds"
"The moon beating its dark bush"
"in black scrolls on the light"
"a summer's wholeness in cathedral gold"
Writing Problems: Four Ways to Make Poetry a Truly Public Good
"Cruel if kind and kind if cruel"
"It pulls the sundown with it"
"it breathes, it circles, a sketch of eternity"
"Galleries, run through veins of time"
"for the green, grey-green fastnesses"
"In casual simplicity - invincible little stone -"
"And filter and fiber your blood"
Writing Problems: Voices of Ghosts
"Sadness tunes the instrument"
"Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet"
"may they bring me precipices"
"Little violent, diligent seed"
"Say peach, say plum, say typical"
"orchard, field and mankind down"
"announcing itself like something stone"
Writing Problems: Things They Don't Teach you in MFA Programs
"The blond assassin passes on"
"The crystals show a future with you happening in it"
Craft: Five Things People Misunderstand about Prose Poems
"I look to you without looking"
"the world, a thousandcrystal"
"you and I, blue glass at the fire-"
"the seer mistaken for the seen"
"I found my name on every page"
"I'll be me, but I don't like it"
"For its nonmetal yet golden remains"
Writing Problems: Emergent strategy
"their bones in one mad dance"
"echoes of exquies and stones"
"you are the one I listen for and to"
"colors arced over a green field"
Writing Problems: Readers as Imagined Others
"tasting the hay-flavored air"
"as if a power is finally dominating"
"through the time let the time"
"Though by that scathing test"
"a place where the snakes feel safe"
"I'm just like a pile of leaves"
"a river's urge to return to the mountain"
"A diadem and curly hair with bits of gold"
"the container cannot contain the thing contained anymore"
"No end to the withering of withered flowers"
"The glaze is gone from the bay and the heat lets go"
"Let's spread the greatcoat on the ground"
"Winter-burning in the fields"
"when the air gushes between mountains"
"one of the wild-blooming crowns"
"ironed into repose and sweet"
Writing Problems: Anxiety of Allusion
"that all should have their place"
"Where are the snows of yesteryear?"
"The lonely hut of the horseradish"
Writing Problems: War in Ukraine
"drawing that began in the caves"
"the tundra, the sea, the ghetto"
"their flesh rich in heavy metals"
"the endearing elegance of female friendship"
"the solitude, and the rains, and the road..."
"All that has died germinates"
Writing Problems: Reading and Giving
"serenade during a night of an eternal moon"
"Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs"
"And listening to itself with softliest mutter"
"jewels on black velvet or apricots on orange"
"Yielded his mind to his heart"
"the ashes of this false catastrophe"
"underneath the earth like an onion"
"in its longing it flies to you"
Craft: What is the function of poetry?
"Amidst these trees I've invented"
"with wing and sweetened fang"
Writing Problems: Censoring Maus
"Face, blush, breath eyes, evanescent"
"fears, stinks, boiling hearts"
"Remember, you naked agent of every nothing"
"there is now is burning dark the only green"
"Thy nearness our forgiving cure"
"I stand and look at them long and long"
"to accept the absence of One to say it to"
Writing Problems: Clearer and Worse
"When mice with wings can wear a human face"
"The lake is an immense cloud"
Writing Problems: Imposter Syndrome
"All the corners that are left"
"Voices. Voices. Listen, my heart, as only"