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By Jared Marcel Pollen
On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.
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- PoemBy Jayne CortezFrom white lightnin to
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out closed in
how do … - PoemBy Jayne CortezTell me about the good things
you clappin & laughin
Will you remember
or will you forget
Forget about… - PoemBy Jayne Cortezornette ornette
Go listen to Ornette
Rambling Blessings
with Cherry Higgins Haden
O. D. C. B. holding church… - PoemBy Russell AtkinsThe probability in the yard:
The rodent keeps the cat close by;
The cat would sharp at the bird;
The… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfTyler Mills on the truth, how to love a cockroach, and her grandfather's silence about the bomb.
- ArticleBy Daisy Fried
August Kleinzahler on A History of Western Music.
- PoemBy Zoë Skouldingwhat travessia/trip/travesia/trajet
traverses
the wreck/naufragio/
naufragio/naufrage
of… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfA.B. Spellman on Jim Crow, alligator suede shoes, and shaking up the art of the castle.
- PoemBy Rita Dovelate, in aqua and ermine, gardenias
scaling her left sleeve in a spasm of scent,
her gloves white, her… - PoemBy Karen HouleOne man and one woman park the government Jeep
on the gravel shoulder of the Grand River watershed.
Paired… - PoemBy William Butler YeatsI
Swear by what the Sages spoke
Round the Mareotic Lake
That the Witch of Atlas knew,
Spoke and set the cocks a-crow.
Swear by those horsemen, by those women,
Complexion and form prove superhuman,
That pale, long visaged company
That airs an immortality
Completeness of their passions won;
Now... - PoemBy William Butler YeatsI have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay,
For everybody knows or else should know
That if nothing drastic is done
Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out,
Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in
Until... - PoemBy William Butler YeatsI
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
The children learn to cipher and to sing,
To study reading-books and history,
To cut and sew, be neat in everything
In the best modern way—the children's eyes
In momentary... - PoemBy George KalamarasEven the earth dies sometimes
when it is most alive.
Walter Bishop Jr. slaying the keys,
Harold Vick… - PoemBy Jorie GrahamThe blades like irises turning very fast to see you completely—steel-blue then red where the cut occurs…