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American poetry

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: W. S. Merwin: An Appreciation

  • David Biespiel
  • March 18, 2019
The psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 8): “Song of the Gourd”

  • David Biespiel
  • March 14, 2017
“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 1): “The Idea of Ancestry”

  • David Biespiel
  • September 13, 2016
I know / their dark eyes, they know mine.
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Reckoning with the Bros: Trump, Bly, and Swimming in the Sea of Grief

  • Wendy Willis
  • May 10, 2016
There are dark forces roiling beneath the surface of American life.
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Of Boston and Poetry

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 23, 2016
But any poet today who shared Longfellow’s taste would be laughed out of the room. He wanted heroism; we want the ordinary. He wanted grand dramas; we want insightful understatement.…
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Where I Write #27: Now In Silence, Mute

  • Al Young
  • May 31, 2014
Now in silence, mute, a place still quiet/within reason, ear-protected, I hear/the flow and pump of blood.
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The State of American Poetry

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 3, 2014
If you liked David Biepsiel’s State of American Poetry address, here’s a nice counterpart by Natasha Trethewey at the Virginia Quarterly Review. “Despair about the place of poetry in American…
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