1. Sheridan was my mom’s best friend’s last name but my mom goes through a lot of best friends. I remember the plush feel of her hugs and wonder why dust falls into the grooves between her and people she isn’t related to by blood. Barren people don’t mix well in the day-to-day when forced to interact with people who have grown into pairs like you. Sapphire strike, blue boycott… a heartbreakingly sore and sullen vacation from codependence. 2. Circles of fluorescent light do not...
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Oscar Chichoni Oh my heart my heavy head in sinking sand interred Oh my world my catastrophic visions temporarily deferred Mercury details scuttle across my vanishing point of view Them and us injustice corruption complicating me and you Assorted envelopes filled with miscellaneous meat muscle and bones Raffle their moans converse contrary and take out short term loans On futures uncertain, fabricated or downright dimwit deluded Tombstoned and chiselled before they’ve even concluded That...
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Zdzislaw Beksinski (1972) Open wide great jaws of time where laughter swallows gods divine Blow your tune through trumpet stems and daffodil delirium Drink the day in draughts that say the green has come to stay Never hear the magpies squall behind the walls of hay In penumbra veiled the colony failed to roll their Sisyphean rock Past the meat-locker feast, that bipedal beast that slanders the afternoon clock And crystal consonants don’t translate to capture the afternoon’s magnetic haze...
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... drive rather than grades is the primarily criteria "because the entrepreneurial spirit is something totally different than someone writing poetry," said ...
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Joseph Brodsky, another great literary exile, once told me that writing poetry in Russian became difficult for him in America after the language ceased to ...
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Whether it's their first or their third national slam, all five Madison team members admit to being nervous about the competition. ...
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I had been writing poetry but I hadn't written anything for performance so I started writing stuff that I wanted to perform. I kept talking to people about ...
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We've seen his rap/slam poetry in the past and were impressed by the intensity of his politically-charged set yesterday. Stomping through material like ...
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'Writing poetry is considered stuff for an 'iarruso,'' said the lawyer, referring to a Sicilian slang word meaning buttocks, but also used as a derogatory ...
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... drive rather than grades is the primarily criteria “because the entrepreneurial spirit is something totally different than someone writing poetry,” said ...
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Heaney seemed unaware of slam poetry. Invented by Mark Smith in Chicago in 1984, it arose from the boredom of seeing poet after poet mumble off a page in ...
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Yet it just wasn’t clear how much Williams’s postmodern slam poetry and meditations on race were being digested. High on theater, it occasionally seemed the ...
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Creative Writing, Poetry: Discussion, critiques, encourages budding writers. Indian River County Main Library, 1600 21st St., Vero Beach, 6 pm Adults. ...
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