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wikipedia poem, no. 38 [anatomic brief history, 6]
six The Machines after Enigma realized together exploits state a test condition to the original rotor machine Friedman was sited against its migration of and referred forward until 2041 Syrian after this would be excepted of beliefs and designed around based on a free market code as a Judah Exchange When a leading SIGGOO or…
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A Reddit discussion on the relevance of poetry, extracted and minimally styled after DFW.
X. Oh my god, everyone. <RANT> Poetry is meaningless, cars are meaningless, thoughts are meaningless, action is meaningless, airplanes are meaningless, babies are meaningless… UNLESS they do something. That has broad implications, but this is a fact. Cliche. Cliche. Cliche. Everyone’s always arguing about the death/rebirth of poetry. Poetry hasn’t mattered on a conventional scale…
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wikipedia poem, no. 36 [hulking like a wounded grizzly bear]
one are many elk hunters use off and officialist wounds, about 200 keep the decision conflict beforest two miles east of grizzly bear ran off and hunter-hunter from a moose carcass When officials hunter-bear spray handy and use officials hanging like a wounded Grizzly Bear Madel said he’s dead the bear made 225 pounds and…
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Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog
The Fourth Night of the Fifth Year Stop reading: Things have gotten tense Between the Farmer and the Bodybuilder The Farmer locked in the barn. Jed wakes The largest rooster, which, in turn, interrupts His old, bitch mother’s wild dream. Night After night drunk as if pulled through a kaleidoscope Basal carcinoma breeches its surface…
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“Black Art” by Amiri Baraka
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, NJ. The weekend was fast-paced and my experience there included conversations with and readings from Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Kuusisto, Patrick Rosal, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Brian Turner, Rebecca Lindenberg, Bridget Talone, Dan Vera, C. Dale Young, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Alex Lemon, Alberto…
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‘Black Art’ by Amiri Baraka
Amid the echoes of the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, N.J., a tapestry of voices—Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Kuusisto, Patrick Rosal, Rebecca Lindenberg, C. Dale Young, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Alberto Rios, Brenda Shaughnessy, Rita Dove, Gary Snyder and more—wove through the weekend, each thread providing rich insights and lingering provocations on the nature of…
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Stein on France, Progress, History
“The background of tradition of profound conviction that men and women and children do not change, that science is interesting but does not change anything, that democracy is real but that governments unless they tax you too much or get you defeated by the enemy are of no importance.” Gertrude Stein in Paris France
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After Reading Stanley Fish (How to Save Amerika)
There’s nothing wrong with Amerika Our leader is a Strawberry Bearer Proposing a thousand point argument to the bathroom mirror And fine we complain of the winter cold and summer heat Autumn is beautiful though and there’s nothing wrong with Amerika When leaves fall and windows break and babies cry From no milk or when…
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Untitled, 072820131301 [draft For Gettysburg, Whitman]
Smell the breath of grass First at their backs and bayonetted sides Because this, the duty of the living:
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