Category Archives: Poetry

In the “The Fall of 1992” in Poetry April 2010 we find Randall Mann’s poetic voice pointing to something so dreadful it is hardly named. […] And the gin-soaked dread that an acronym was festering inside. This particular issue of … Continue reading →

Coarse. Very course. It’s poetry full of drinking and fucking. Scenes from an urban wasteland. Tales of a company town. But yet there is poetry here. A suicide on Friday and damn awkward water cooler moments Monday Someone jokes that … Continue reading →

She has a cycle of poems under the rubric “Home: A Calendar” in which “March thaw, March snow” features a descriptions of crocuses. their white tongues poking unbidden from the loam: pale children, tentative and lean, summer’s hope a linen … Continue reading →

Lisa Gordon offers poems constructed out of a series of couplets almost like ghazals in Moving in with the Dalai Lama. Often they, the couplets, float off and dissipate with the onrush of the next set. This one is an … Continue reading →

BookThug has published a chapbook by Robert Anderson entitled The Hospital Poems. On the back cover there is a blurb by Julie Joosten “the ward becomes world, becomes the word, becomes the war.” Beauty is drawn from struggle. The brilliance … Continue reading →

Choice-Noice-Noise-Poise This is the chain that I have dug up from a stanza from ryan fitzpatrick “A Sparrow’s Song” in Fake Math. It reads in part like a syntagm carrying a transformation through the static. Here it is in its … Continue reading →

The reading below hinges on the distinction between “Snowman” (a being made of snow) and “Snow Man” (a being observing snow). It is a nicety not found in Fowler’s. Search engines readily respond to either strings with image sets of … Continue reading →

C.D. Lewis The Lyric Impulse [About a poem by John Clare produced during his confinement in Northampton Asylum] This, to me, is a test poem. If any student of English literature failed to respond to it, I would advise him … Continue reading →