poetry
-
This month, rather than writing a poem every day, I’m going to blog about a book of poetry that has been important to me, or that I’ve really admired. First up: Mathias Svalina’s Destruction Myth, a brilliant sequence of poems that continually rewrite “Creation Myth”s, finished off with one big, cataclysmic “Destruction Myth.” A longer…
-
If you want a fun weekend, just put Collin and Reb and Gideon into it. (She sums it up better than me.)
-
is humbling. Lambda Literary Award Nominees Gay Poetry * Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press) * The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press) * The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press) * Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press) * What…
-
I wrote a poem last night. An honest-to-gawd poem. It hasn’t been happening often lately, partly because I’ve been so busy, partly because I’ve been more interested in going on dates with short fiction, and partly because I’ve been putting too much pressure on myself. The title of this post comes from a Beckian Fritz…
-
NANOPEDIA. Like, you know.
-
“Probably some of us were taught so long and hard that poetry was a thing to analyze that we lost our ability to find it delicious, to appreciate its taste, sometimes even when we couldn’t even completely apprehend its meaning. I love to offer students a poem now and then that I don’t really understand.…
charlesjensenwriter.com 