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David Biespiel

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David Biespiel is a poet, literary critic, memoirist, and contributing writer at American Poetry Review, New Republic, New York Times, Poetry, Politico, The Rumpus, and Slate, among other publications. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Education of a Young Poet, which was selected a Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers, A Long High Whistle, which received the 2016 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction, and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen for Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 7): “Facing It”

  • David Biespiel
  • December 6, 2016
There should be no forgetting, much less forgiveness, of what happened during the Vietnam War.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 6): “To Elsie”

  • David Biespiel
  • November 22, 2016
Now the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies...
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 5): “The Lost Pilot”

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  • November 8, 2016
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 4): “Roosters”

  • David Biespiel
  • October 25, 2016
the roosters brace their cruel feet and glare // with stupid eyes / while from their beaks there rise / the uncontrolled, traditional cries.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems that Shaped America (Pt. 3): “Prospective Immigrants Please Note”

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  • October 11, 2016
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 2): “Ave Maria”

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  • September 27, 2016
Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 1): “The Idea of Ancestry”

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  • September 13, 2016
I know / their dark eyes, they know mine.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Suit

  • David Biespiel
  • June 7, 2016
It was as if he understood that the authentic must begin in the voice. And through the texture of the voice—its moral and psychological claims—sensory details emerge with absolute authority.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Pale of Vermont

  • David Biespiel
  • May 17, 2016
But to become a writer I needed at least to learn about my own superstitions. I needed space in the house to sketch with words. I needed to commit heresies. And those acts had to feel pleasurable.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Something’s Happening Out There

  • David Biespiel
  • May 3, 2016
The big crowd stretched form the gold-domed State House to Park Street. I had the urgent feeling that we were part of something. That we counted.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Dugout

  • David Biespiel
  • April 19, 2016
So much of politics is symbolic speech in the service of the syncopations of the lives we actually live. But the ways we gather to vote is with our bodies. It’s the dance that goes along with those rhythms.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Primal Talk

  • David Biespiel
  • April 5, 2016
One of the thrills of being a writer is becoming aware of the wildness that percolates inside of you. If you’ve learned to listen, you’re able to hear it.
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