Sitemap - 2023 - The Sharpener
Writing Problems: Things They Don't Teach you in MFA Programs
"no degree for what is learned in the dark"
"the boat has not turned to stone"
"as [magical] intimate - as fugitive"
Craft: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
"trickling through the intimate brooks"
"The mighty wheel rumbles beneath"
"from the pasts scattering it all over"
"Just to open ourselves in delicate circles"
"taken into its tapes and filters"
"Fastens like fur to the river"
Writing Problems: Things to do Instead of Cycling Through the Same Fears About Civil Unrest
"Advocate the Azure / To the lower Eyes—"
"fragile as the inner skin of eggs"
"I ask for the poem to be as pure as a seagull's belly"
Writing Problems: Small Presses, Distribution, & Poetry Economies
"Prime paramour and belted paragon"
"her sovereign claim to white"
Writing Problems: AI and Disorientation of Reality
"I need a hand to nail the right"
"the powerful, well-oiled latch"
"All the goods are stolen, all the blisters are in the cup"
"That's all there is to know!"
"Why upset others and oneself?"
"I felt like I was falling down someplace else"
"I want to be entered and picked clean"
"As if firsts and lasts were one and the same"
"This keeps the focus where it wants to be"
"no witness. You are around me"
"The mounting tension and the spasm"
"Almost too big to get used to, its dimensions amaze is. Who are blind to Whatever"
"it will writhe in front of you in ecstasies"
Writing Problems: What's Wrong with Poetry?
"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards"
"Like spooks—a vapor from another time"
Writing Problems: Representation? Appropriation?
"But there are lovers and lovers"
"I said tide but tide was never right said tide"
"I walked through it through you"
"Come, help flatten a raindrop"
"so that you can enter in the amber"
"You are a planet on this planet"
"Believe me, I loved you all."
"and now it looks like we won't"
"Memory / like Melody, / Is pink"
Writing Problems: Crime / Poetry
"strung up into the trees of the future"
"still able to unwrinkled on his spine"
"In their shadows & promiscuous"
"Does this happen to the others."
"Or do we just stand and watch?"
"Before it was quite unsheathed from reality"
"Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown"
"Keep the same precise stitch"
Writing Problems: Professional Development
"These had a being, breathing frost"
"I think I can finally stand me"
"the bubble of rectitude that allowed you breath"
Writing Problems: How to Respond in Workshops
"Which way to look? Nonnegative?"
"the universal language, translatable"
"we staying till the stamens trembled"
"a phantom curiously floating"
Writing Problems: On Not Being Able to Write
"One is always nearer by not keeping still"
"I can't hang around here all day"
"Minute survivors, permanent and clear"
"since I myself stand in my own way"
"how they transform the useless"
Writing Problems: Censoring Maus
"just guests of one another's senses"
"traveling on its tongue of light"
"The hills of glass, the fatal brilliant plain"
Writing Problems: Is My Manuscript Good Enough?
"The darkness from the darkness"
"Every living situation has one"
"you think I am, more than I think"
"scorched by the sun's blueness"
"trembling in its torn pocket"
Writing Problems: Poetry Book Sales
"glinting bright as hard polished silver nails"
"take a note and spin it around"
"it's not the color blue, it's the color cold"
"Red, the delicate tribes of roebuck, doe"
"My red filaments burn and stand"
Writing Problems: Old Words and New Words
"touching the darkness of their whole story"
"You get up to close that clear brittle door"
"twisting fruit as if I was entering a thousand doors"
"The rounded ones cry out & are sent in"
"wielding his burning underwater torch"
"Let us have honey cakes, too"
"No comfortable feel in any member"
"I see the yellow maculations spread"
Writing Problems: Roots—Alphabet / Poetry Family Tree
"wings hoarse voices of our clipped and necessary feathers"
"Scattering earth in the strange woods"
"words are suitcases with false bottoms"
"You'll awake with holes in your forehead"
"Voice like that of letters eaten by grass"
"Rather a stop with a green shadow"
Writing Problems: Not Centering the Human
"but it hurts, the mirrors closing in"
"screen is orange, is crackling flesh and brick bursting"
Writing Problems: Who Reads Poetry?
"understanding such flow as transmuted acre"
"in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn"
"pickle relish & garlic powder plus"
"And the fashionable monde of the red couch"
"Here a false face won't help you"
Writing Problems: First Poems in First Books
"you-everything-in-between-it"
"Existence has a stated width"
"like a blue space between mountains"
"unraveling his skein of private nightmares"
"the buzz inside the root of things"
"each thing as separate and enough"
"the slow, light, grave unstitching of lies"
Writing Problems: Space and the Tyranny of the Left Margin
"it had loosened itself and gone"
"the mirror becoming stranger"
"It keeps the nerves progressive"
"works, and the linked, articulating"
"Leaf, lichen, the least refinements, and the perfection"
"Have you no beginning and end?"
"uttering cries that are almost human"
"Through the huge reflected sky of a triumphant noon"
"Such are the inlets of / the mind"
"if the world wants, it nothing wants for us"
"Mist is when the sky is tired of flight"
"it passes through the mesh of thought"
"mobile mouth that siphons in the air that nurtures"
"They spoke as chords do from the string"
Writing Problems: Cheap, but Good Advice for Making Poems
"I feel your coils tightening..."
"the black demon cares little"
"The mineral case is soft and gibbous"
"What the heart bore, she noted on a chart"
"This swift darkness is spring's first hour"
"And again now, and now, and now"
"From a magician's midnight sleeve"
"still trying to tell me surface things"
"Even though we give (give up) ourselves"
"so out from us there's no vocabulary"
"A hymn, a snare, and an exceeding sun"
Writing Problems: "The card says 'Moops!'"
"Can't we both take care and rejoice?"
"And in the vault I heard a clank of chains"
"Apply mind energy they will move"
"By pulling off flesh from the living planet"
"any sweet / “Come in” Impelled to / hark"
"written on terrestrial things"
"and found myself in a chamber of options"
"twisting up out of depth beyond depth"
"An ethereal agonal of sooth & rune"
"The earth was fragile and mostly water"
"You think it's me / but it's only me"
"I, its friend, shielding it from harm"
"Diamonds on the stamens when the sun goes blind"
"its emptiness was the very devil"
"the wire from this box of nerves"
"Contact lens of a full moon out of breath"
"through the brass-boned monster"
"Of worldly purity the stained archetype"
Writing Problems: What is "Poetry Voice?"
"Navies fed to the fish in the dark"
"Don't let anyone in to wake us"
"your seven leaves unsheathed"
"Inherit from disaster before I move"
"Glass was / the Street -/ in Tinsel / Peril"
"like a bright-decked star ship"
"through a complicated pipework"
"I remember a corrugated ribbon"
"The two-sided nature of doors"
"Winterworn / Enticed to Break"
"the slender tines of this pitchfork"
"when the microphones in the hotel walls are forgotten"
"this blackened disembodied question"
"I may not tear into, I must bring back perfectly"
"I've eaten a bag of green apples"
"that one you pass off as yourself"
"Night's pleasure and the press of weather"
"From the glass joint of a rod of grass"
"With invisible nets from their sad, night bridges"
"the trees are having their hibernal bark event"
"berries warm a field of bones"
"The sky was a hot, blue sheet"
"from its being kept forever under"
"Dark silent forms, performing"
"her clavicle hinged at her neck to sing"
"Moving and being, the image at its source"