I avoid writing love poems because I think it's really hard. But when I met my boyfriend Andrew he made me want to give it a try.
Justin Allen on "Always" |
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"National Book Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Longlist for Poetry"
"On Dec. 19, the organization announced their sixth award longlist, for the poetry genre. From Dec. 16 to Dec. 19, the NBCC shared the longlists for their coveted literary award for the first time, in honor of the organization's 50th anniversary. The Poetry longlist includes: An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang, Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon."
via PEOPLE |
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What Sparks Poetry: Cynthia Cruz on Reading Prose
"With capitalism, this constructive destruction is perverted and, instead of constructivity arising from destruction, we have only pure destruction. Stanzas four through six speak to this destruction, capitalism’s contamination. In, for example, the lines, 'Damage/from the inside,' the contamination occurs through subject formation which means it happens internally, through the mind." |
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