Category: Poetry
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Pluto Shits on the Universe By Fatimah Asghar
Pluto Shits on the Universe By Fatimah Asghar http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/250212 On February 7, 1979, Pluto crossed over Neptune’s orbit and became the eighth planet from the sun for twenty years. A study in 1988 determined that Pluto’s path of orbit could never be accurately predicted. Labeled as “chaotic,” Pluto was later discredited from planet status in…
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Svarog’s Hymn
Svarog’s Hymn One true Church, he grinned mischievously. It is mine, obviously. The Church of Me— I, mine and me, now that’s a trinity!
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Lowell Blues
Thinking about things Beat after yesterday’s Shakespeare & Company post. Seems like a good time to share this cool film, found on the equally cool Allen Ginsberg Project blog. “Henry Ferrini’s impressionistic evocative Lowell Blues (2000) is a honeyed melancholic visual poem (somewhat imposed upon in this version by Journeyman Pictures intrusive logo!), with home-town…
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Do You Recognize This Poem?
I found this in an file, dated 4/2014, along with a lot of potential edits, the full text Genesis: I 1-27, and A LOT of notes on those passages. I have no memory of the how and the why, if I wrote this or I was just playing around with someone else’s stuff, but it…
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Spam Poetry Challenge Entry
Christy over at Poetry Parfait threw down the gauntlet for a Spam Poetry Challenge. I apologize for my entry in advance–I didn’t take it very seriously, I guess. I’m putting the poem first, because it works better that way. The original spam lines follow. A different female I had been speaking to was stunned,said Wow,…
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Two Poems Stuck In My Head
Forgive me, it’s been over 6 weeks since i sat down and tried to think in verse. Forget about the actual work of putting it on paper and tinkering. I could blame all the obligations–work, kid’s stuff, chores, a wedding, a vacation, fiction, and this damned blog–but I don’t do excuses with writing. It’s like…
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The Colorado Independent: News Poems
I’m continually scouring the internet, looking for poetry to roll around in like one of those crazed grizzlies on Kodiak Island loll about in rotting whale flesh–intoxicated by the joy and sensory overload of sustenance, bounty, excess. I found that The Colorado Independent is doing a series on poems inspired by the news–don’t think about…
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Tsunami Sketch
I watch them walk wonderingly, Stupified across the strange expanding sand And I, likewise bewitched, stare mute Eight years and half a world distant: It’s not right It’s not right It’s not right And when it comes, it is perfect, A brilliant curl rimmed in white An embrace And still they walk And still I…
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Link: Why should poets engage with ‘ordinary people’?
This article caught my eye the other day, another discussion about poets, poetry, and audience–specifically, is poetry a marginalized art form because poets are largely snobbish and write to impress each other, rather than writing towards a broad audience? It’s an interesting debate–if I was forced to pick a side, I’d have to go with…
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I Love Your Soft
I tossed a draft of this against the Twitter wall yesterday and it stuck. A little. I love your soft Solomon-songed geology– oh, those hills and valleys– your glacial erosion.
Old Road Apples 