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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
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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“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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wikipedia poem, no. 24
the explicit camphor find it two notes a major third interval then the cuckoo i know the unfading green camphor when i hear it do you two notes a major third interval and then the idea of an owl juxtaposed by the cuckoo the meantime the shuttering engine it all adds up to a subtle…
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wikipedia poem, no. 23
How to Deal with Failure in the Age of Reddit known as reductio ad absurd this platonic object but not exist yes, if you are existence then count main characters certain certain certain sensory (see threatfulness) textual this perfectly specific here in fact the black takes a bicycle the computer the computer edits the population…
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“The music is beautiful it takes me”
The music is beautiful it takes me a long time to see that this is besides the point. József Lendvay is beautiful like the music masculine affirmative embracing what is sad although I do not know from stories told to me but the music speaks and I understand it. But he says it and I…
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Five Days Outside of London
I don’t know why apples fall where don’t care for candy or cats &, no, I didn’t catch that show, no Compelled to connect I put my hand up against the cold windowpane a bullet of shock runs towards my heart bulls graze in the street so many zoos lost in time we’re more afraid…
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Feminist Poem for Marilyn Monroe
There are no photos of Marilyn Monroe Just images of her lovers Ed Clark not the once-young negro abstract expressionist Painted himself as Marilyn Bent at the hip, arched back in white Griffith Park her ass Some tribute her one must presume face ordered dilute Later as she lay back nude one hand dissolving at…
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wikipedia poem, no. 7
Television tomb mushrooms in a 1958 crime the Hollywood and Younghead and Chamber of Lions dawn feared attire might state his objection to perceptual, electrified disturbances in the panic of a hit The family Actor followed of cannabis year The Godfather Hallucinogenic with pre-existing fight history, one studio film derealized the “Last Aztecs and Top”…