Archive Editor’s Note
By Valerie Mejer Caso
None of these architectures are real, but rather they are like phrases, emotional responses to real architectures located by power and polished by the steps of hundreds of thousands in the 400 years...
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Archive Editor’s Note
By Julian Peters
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By Sarah RuhlWe form each other in poetic communities that open and circle outward, sometimes starting with an audience of one.
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By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenWe have never tried to make the science in question less than the deeply complex thing it is, for in that complexity lies opportunity for understanding, which comes from attention, which offers us...
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By Rick KoganBeing asked to serve as February’s Poem of the Day guest editor was an honor. It also proved to be an intense personal journey. I was reminded of poets and poems long forgotten, and encountered new and powerful...
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By Michel Belyk & Alisha Isherwood
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By Emily Hooper LansanaSitting in my room alone, a 12-year-old Black girl in Shaker Heights, Ohio, reading My House and Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, my world expanded. There were words for so much of what I hadn’t known how to speak.
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By Robert Eric Shoemaker… to leave the curtains open, step away, and make more space for others to enter.
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerAs a way of telling our stories, the language impulse to poetry is a primary expressive urge coming from our bones.
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerOur desire is to maintain Harriet Monroe’s open door in the truest spirit of belonging.
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerThrough imagining and acting on the imaginary, poetry can help make an existence to live in, thrive in, and appreciate differently.
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerThe lyric I is the specter and the muse of contemporary American poetry.
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By Robert Eric Shoemaker“November has come to the forest”
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerThe Waste Land’s afterlife was a self-fulfilling prophecy strategically crafted by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, two writers who sought to meaningfully connect with what they thought of as the “greatest” literature...
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By The Editors & Robert Eric ShoemakerA peek “behind the scenes” at how you, reader of the Poem of the Day, get “World Egg Day,” “National Sea Serpent Day,” and your monthly U.F.O. sighting anniversary.
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerSit still. Avoid the “parade of the world.” Difficult?
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerPoetry in print can assume a quiet death-like existence
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerTo let someone into your metaphor so deep as to touch the symbol of your most emotional self is a great risk. The reader of a poem takes great risk in allowing wild emotions and thoughts into themselves...
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By Robert Eric ShoemakerI recently learned that the word “curate” comes from “curare,” a Latin root meaning “to attend and to care for.” I’ve long had an aversion to the terminology of “curating” an archive, since that ...