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Poetry makes nothing happen… or does it?

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You see the phrase, “poetry makes nothing happen” trotted out over and over again, attributed to W.H. Auden as some sort of evidence for the reductiveness and hermetic inutility of poetry. And yet…

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11.04.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (30)

I choose the dumb one

Sorry to be MIA, a ratatouille of obstacles thrown in my path this week. Here we go: I escape from work, play hooky, and ride the subway all the way to the editor’s house in Brooklyn

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10.17.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (2)

So long September. On this, the last day of the month, have a lasting look at Cathie Bleck’s “Transformations” above, also featured on the current cover of Poetry. Inside, I see a hoof, a hand, and (blush) the distinct influence of Rockwell Kent.

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09.30.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (4)

Kenneth Goldsmith

Flarf and Conceptual Writing in Poetry Magazine

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An introduction to the 21st Century’s most controversial poetry movements.
From the July/August 2009 Issue of Poetry Magazine

by Kenneth Goldsmith

Start making sense. Disjunction is dead. The fragment, which ruled poetry for the past one hundred years, has left the building. Subjectivity, emotion, the body, and desire, as expressed in whole units of plain English with normative syntax, has returned. But not in ways you would imagine . . .

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07.01.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (18)

Travis Nichols

2009: The Halfway-Point Reading Report

The Top Ten Most-Read Articles on poetryfoundation.org

Of all the articles on poetryfoundation.org, these received the most page views:

1. “Show Your Work” by Matthew Zapruder

2. “Going Negative” by Jason Guriel

3. “Poetry Can Be Any Damn Thing it Wants” by Mary Ann Caws

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06.23.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (5)

Annie Finch

Happy Mother’s Day, to Foremothers, Poet-Moms, and Maggie

Today I went to visit my mother, Margaret Rockwell Finch, who turned 88 a few weeks ago. As always lately, she showed me a new poem. Maggie was my first model of a

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Margaret Rockwell Finch, 1961

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05.10.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (11)

Fred Sasaki

Is that a poem in your pocket?

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Poetry staff was happy to see Ana Benaroya’s e-mail come over the transom with big, beautiful illustrations for us to consider for the cover of the magazine. (See November 2008 for her first appearance and April 2009 for her latest, “Crazy Head.”) After perusing her website we found several poetry illos in her pocket that made us fall crazy head over heels for her work. Click on for a few samples.

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04.15.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (2)

Don Share

What Do You Know?

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Judith Shklar introduced her book Ordinary Vices by saying, “It is only if we step outside the divinely ruled moral universe that we can really put our minds to the common ills we inflict upon one another each day.” I suppose poets these days aren’t supposed to put their minds to grand tasks – you know, it’s more like write a poem every day for a month. But since it’s not only National Poetry Month but National Uh-Huh month, I thought I’d post something, you know, deep.

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04.13.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (67)

Don Share

Happy Birthday!!!

Some folks didn’t care for our recent commemoration of the centennial of Futurism – like we were endorsing it somehow, sheesh! Well, it’s time to celebrate yet another birthday.