October 18, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – October
In the beginning was the Word, I read again, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Whatever your theology, that’s a sublime lede. We call this […]
December 10, 2018
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – December
What makes poetry poetry? Ask that question of a dozen poets, scholars, or readers and you’ll get as many different answers, maybe more. Some won’t be much help: “Poetry is […]
July 20, 2012
Black to green to gone: the lyric moment in Wright’s “Tattoos”
The tattoo, as a thing of memory, takes on memory’s double (or triple, or quadruple, or quintuple) life. Like a poem, it becomes prismic with the passage of time and […]