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Tag: #PoeticStructure

  • “Let Us Mark This Day,” by Sarah Wolfson

    I remember in 2008, this poem by Linnea Ogden. “Contact.” Written like it was the poetry that lies beneath legal documentation. Like it was sounding out legalese, writing a poetic consideration of legal discourse. Maybe the “contact” of the title directs readers to think what happens when two kinds of language are put into contact…

  • from Townies, by Emiliano Gomez

    I feel like there are always questions someone should be asked after they’ve said they’re from somewhere. Something more than just, “Where’s that?” When I was in the Navy, people would ask where I was from, and I would say, “Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.” And they would always think I was saying something stupid, because where…

  • “Cenotaph: Salt Cedar and Shed,” by Richard Greenfield

    I’m not sure what I would identify as the event occasioning Richard Greenfield’s poem, “Cenotaph: Salt Cedar and Shed.” Working from the title, I would set it on the unusual equation of a salt cedar and a cenotaph. Like the poet looks out of his window and there’s a salt cedar that has grown past…

  • “Elliptical,” by Kristen Steenbeeke

    Do you remember when every interesting poem was labeled “elliptical,” because it did this thing with juxtaposition or parataxis or dysjunction, and the subject matter or the poem’s voice was just spaced differently. And that made it more interesting. And God bless Stephanie Burt for setting those poems away from the LangPo and Narrative “in-fighting”…

  • “Althea,” by Molly Ledbetter

    What would life would be like if you were in the middle of a Grateful Dead song. Or you were moving a lot, and you suddenly realized there’s a lot of life that passed, and you’ve been moving so much you may or may not have noticed that. And you’re doing an art of moving,…

  • “02.03.16,” by Laynie Browne

    I don’t feel entirely qualified to make some grand statement about how Laynie Browne approaches books (like does she always write her books as a project, or are the three books I have read coincidentally project books); however, I can register with some confidence that when one of Browne’s books steps into its project, the…