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Posted inPoetry

A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly

Avatar photo by Mark Scroggins January 20, 2022January 21, 2022

Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.

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The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism

Avatar photo by Tim Keane February 13, 2021February 13, 2021

Since Aimé Césaire’s death in 2008 at the age of 94, as democracies devolve into autocracies, his Discourse on Colonialism remains prescient about the barbarity that informs civilization.

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Ted Greenwald’s Poems Chart Our Connections to the Earth

by Douglas Messerli June 17, 2018June 15, 2018

Greenwald combines a Wordsworthian sense of nature with cartoon-like characters.

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The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo

by Douglas Messerli April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.

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Learning Little from John Cage’s Letters

by Richard Kostelanetz July 14, 2016July 14, 2016

Some of us didn’t need letters from him, because he trusted us to do what we did without requiring his instruction or encouragement.

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Sweet Soul Music: Fred Moten’s “The Little Edges”

by James Gibbons March 15, 2015March 14, 2015

The title of Fred Moten’s latest collection, The Little Edges, pinpoints the border country where his poetry unfolds.

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Sense of an Ending: Harvey Shapiro’s A Momentary Glory

by James Gibbons November 2, 2014November 1, 2014

When I recall the poet Harvey Shapiro, who died not long before his eighty-ninth birthday in January 2013, I remember having lunch with him on a sweltering August afternoon in 2001, New York City’s hottest day in twenty-five years, or so the radio said.

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