Granada
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Granada
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Author: The Best American Poetry
Granite glistened as the rain lashed down Upon it, glinting, flickering in the vague Sunlight that appeared in the distance Rocks ever so slimy as we walked Waves crashing against the shore, An aroma washed into our senses Of salt and seaweed refreshing Our minds as we randomly giggled And chatted about life while Trying…
Just give off light flowing like lava from the heat held within, just bathe in light letting pores and capillaries fill with energy pockets, just flash by like light, a storm streak in a dark night of wishing. The post Weight of Light | Russ Cope appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author:…
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month barring something unforeseen. We realize something unforeseen isn’t likely to happen since we’re prepared for anything as the years march on and we march right behind them. Second only…
Back in 1989, when Allan Bloom’s indictment of what has come to be called “Woke” was current (“The Closing of the American Mind”), Bloom and a professor named Gerald Graff appeared on an afternoon talk show. Maybe it was Sally Jesse Raphael’s. It was meant to be a debate. Bloom was adamant on the distinction…
Next week—on July 25th—Penguin will release Terrance Hayes’s Watch Your Language. The book is series of fantastic essays about the last century of American poetry. Including graphs, artwork, multiple choice quizzes, tarot cards, a boardgame, Hayes’s own poems for context, and biography framed by epistolatory gestures, Watch Your Language is a hybrid wonder. From personal…
Act of putting together tantrums, haywire thoughts throw back of poetry written in spiral bound books. Tattered pages bleed the word lives silently sleeps silently dies silently. The post Silently | Ananya S. Guha appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online