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This is a repost of a guide that I lost when I had to move from Typepad; I just threw everything into the truck and didn’t check all the closets. By “street poems,” I mean poems of overheard conversations and soliloquies. Found-language poems, like “Now or Later” at Street Cake; scroll down to see it.…
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CalculationsThe algorithm slips hervideos of smiling monkeys,confused cats, dancing frogs, and dogs speaking of bacon.She glimpses reels bythe Metropolitan Opera,the Freelancers Union, andEncyclopaedia Britannica,but skips ahead toHeart some snakes in wigs,erratic emus, a pig named Bikini,cockatoos flapping to Queen, her pocket-sized theater of the absurd.Deadline unmet, errand not run, andthe room echoes with her laughter.Susan…
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This week’s poem is “Making a Fist,” by Naomi Shihab Nye. It begins, You can read the rest of the poem at the Academy of American Poets. “Making a Fist” is one of the first poems I read in a creative writing class at Columbia many years ago. I attended as a continuing-education student, and…
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Inspired by some viral videos, the poet Donika Kelly wrote about hippos. Sort of. The Poetry Society of America shares her “Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things” and a short essay about its origins. Great mentor poem and text to try out! Who’s with me? I’ll aim for the Poetry Friday…
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Thanks for talking about Camille T. Dungy’s “Characteristics of Life” with me last week. Your comments were helpful in interpreting the poem, and I’m still thinking about it. Dungy’s phrase “filter and filter and filter all day,” relating to the moon jelly’s (and, surely, a poet’s) task, brought to mind another poem, Lorine Niedecker’s “Poet’s…
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I really like the work of the poet Camille T. Dungy, and want to read more of it. Her nonfiction book Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden is excellent, as is Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, which she edited. So, the poem I chose today is Dungy’s “Characteristics of…
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