The best thing about the holidays Is January 2nd, when the annoying holiday music in the supermarket ends and we go back to sincere elevator music…
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Last week I mentioned that I often compare poets to dogs. I received a few emails asking me to elaborate. So I want to ask, Am I the only one who thinks this way? Should I teach a seminar on helping poets find their inner dog? There are, after all, just so many similarities between…
The wise ape is smiling because he knows he’s an ape The rest of the apes don’t seem to see, they give themselves pretty stones from rivers and chatter about epistemology They pretend they are something other than animal, violent, selfish, reading their little books or no reading at all Even though the wise ape…
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Suppress push them down – the pitiable residents – your tenants – but be ready for restless overthrowing. The post Landlords | M Spear appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
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Dante Di Stefano, Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). H. L. Hix, Bored In Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023) H. L. Hix: Not two weeks before we began this conversation, I read Carl Phillips’ My Trade Is Mystery, in which, describing his poetic development, Phillips carefully makes it explicit that the…
