5th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 3 :: Johnny Damm on The Glory of Raymond Roussel
[box]It's hard to believe this year is our FIFTH annual 30/30/30 series, and that when this month is over we will have seeded and scattered ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY of these love-letters, these stories of gratitude and memory, into the world.
5th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 2 :: Jacklyn Janeksela on Airea Dee Matthews & Rasheed Copeland :: Words to Shake a Cradle, A Nation
[box]It's hard to believe this year is our FIFTH annual 30/30/30 series, and that when this month is over we will have seeded and scattered ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY of these love-letters, these stories of gratitude and memory, into the world.
5th(!) Annual National Poetry Month 30/30/30 :: Nevertheless I Live :: Jay Besemer on Tristan Tzara
[box]It's hard to believe that today's post marks the first of our FIFTH annual 30/30/30 series, and that when this month is over we will have seeded and scattered ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY of these love-letters, these stories of gratitude
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 29 :: Joanna C. Valente on John Milton
[line]Sometimes I like to think John and I are best friends, that we take long walks in Prospect Park together, looking like an old married couple as I momentarily guide him, work as his non-poetic eye. Of course, Milton was
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 28 :: Kristen Tauer on Zachary Schomburg
[line]I first encountered Zachary Schomburg in springtime on a rooftop bar in downtown New York City, through the voice of another poet. The words hit me like this: [box] . . . . . . . . . . [/box] Which is to say that his work cracked a huge space in my understanding of
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 26 :: Jeannie Hoag on Sara Teasdale and Edna St. Vincent Millay
[script_teaser]Growing up in my small Wisconsin town, there were four places I loved above all others: the park, the Dairy Queen, the stationery aisle of the drugstore, and the public library.[/script_teaser] When I was 12 or 13, I found among the
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 25 :: Charles Theonia on Joe Brainard's I Remember
[line][h2]Wearing Green and Yellow on Thursday[/h2] Joe Brainard’s memoir I Remember could be a list, a series of prose poems, an associative diary of recollections about growing up queer in the 1940s and ’50s of the Midwest, with some Lower East
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 12 :: Anton Yakovlev on Joshua Mehigan
Reading Joshua Mehigan's collections The Optimist (2004) and Accepting the Disaster (2014), I was struck by the understated, low-key way in which the author delivered the most impactful passages in his poems, causing them to go straight to the reader’s
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 10 :: Amanda [Ngoho] Reavey on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
[articlequote]Then experience is revelation, because plants and people have in their cells particles of light that can become coherent, that radiate out physically and also with the creativity of metaphor, as in a beam of light holographically, i.e. by intuition,
4th Annual Poetry Month 30/30/30 :: Day 4 :: Lawrence Kaplun on James Longenbach
In her book of essays Proofs and Theories, Louise Gluck writes, “The argument for completion, for thoroughness, for exhaustive detail, is that it makes an art more potent because more exact – a closer recreation of the real. But the
