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A Supermarket on Facebook and ‘Free Union’ by Breton [by Larry Sawyer]
[Happy birthday, Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880–1918] André Breton's agenda to destroy bourgeois forms of consciousness with the exploration of desire as "a theatre of provocations" is possibly most apparent and memorable in his poem from…
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Larry Sawyer, Guest Author August 26-30
Larry Sawyer is the author of Vertigo Diary (BlazeVox, 2013), and Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Books, 2010). His poetry has appeared in Action Yes, The Chicago Tribune, Coconut, Court Green, Esque, Exquisite Corpse,…
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“Happy Forty-Three, Graham Foust!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
GRAHAM FOUST (8/25)Foust is forty-three.Don’t try to annihilate me.His Christian name is Graham.The Lion will lie to the Lamb.The Nixon AdministrationHas made a promiscuous oration.And Foust is forty-three:A degenerate virgo like me.•Kit Marlowe wrote…
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ERRATA: [by A. Van Jordan]
ERRATA: So, a few days ago I quoted a part of Gwendolyn Brooks' Annie Allen, from "the children of the poor" poem. I said it was in the "Anniad" section of the book, but…
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Gettin’ Over: How It is in the Poem is How It is in Life [by A. Van Jordan]
So, for my last blog, I spoke to some poets to get an idea of what I should do, and I think I’m going to take a cue from poet John Murillo (Up Jump…
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The Assemblage of Poems [by A. Van Jordan]
Okay, so, today I’m cheating a bit. If you’re a student of mine out there in the world, and you’re reading this blog today, you will have heard much of what will follow. Or,…
