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Searching for Roots
I used to write a lot of poetry. Or, I should say, there was a period in my life in which I wrote a substantial amount of poetry. I wasn’t one of those emo kids in the 10th grade, sitting out on the...
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Sharon Olds and two Poems
I’ve lately been “perusing” Sharon Olds – a wonderful, raw poet who I’ve looked up to for several years. Sadly, I’ll admit that I haven’t engrossed myself in her work… but what I have read of hers, and...
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Obama in Asheville – James Franco Misses the Mark
I have always been a firm believer that anyone can write poetry. Your mom, your three-year-old brother, your uncle… Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone encounters verse at their own pace, and...
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#13
So, someone tell me who I should have talked to during my undergraduate education. Aren’t people supposed to graduate school with jobs? Isn’t that the point these days? We see everywhere, “Education is...
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The Potential of Visual-Verbal Poetics in General Society
Lately I’ve been thinking about contemporary poetics, and the bridge between the written word and what many would consider the ‘visual arts’. Traditional poetics would place the verse, or the lyric,...
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