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AS WE LOOKED EACH OTHER OVER: NEW SCARRIET POEM
As we looked each other over, Looking for poems in the eyes, Poems moving in the eyes, Intellectuality the worst disguise, Or, what is hidden, what all seek— The feeling we get when the answer is near—...
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PROGRESS AND THE NEW ‘WEIRD’ LITERARY MOVEMENT
Philip Larkin: is this poet just too weird for Horror/Fantasy/Science Fiction/Weird? Since the French Revolution, the radical has become the default setting of the intellectual, especially in Arts...
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IF POLITICS WERE POETRY
If Joe Biden laughed at me, I’d punch him in the face, Civility the first requirement of the human race. Thank the sun, the rain, the bounty which even on the undeserving pours, Thank your country and...
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ORIGINAL HALLOWEEN POEM FROM THE SCARRIET EDITORS
My love dressed as a witch And she was beautiful. Her smile gave me a crazy itch, And the moon was full. My love dressed as a black cat And she was beautiful. Her smile—could I resist that? And the...
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ANOTHER SCARY SCARRIET POETRY HOT 100!
1. Natasha Trethewey Beautiful! Black! Poet Laureate! 2. Billy Collins Still sells… 3. David Lehman Best American Poetry Series chugs along… 4. Stephen Burt Harvard Cross-dresser takes Vendler’s...
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W.S.MERWIN V. RITA DOVE
President Obama has Rita Dove going all the way in his Scarriet Poetry Tournament office pool. Rita Dove will have to defeat M.S. Merwin in the South/Midwest Bracket’s semi-final to make it into the...
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PHIL LEVINE AND STEPHEN DUNN BATTLE IN THE NORTH
Phil Levine and Stephen Dunn may be the two living poets most dedicated to the poem as a critique of life/art. All the critics would agree, and the two poems by these two poets in today’s contest are...
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WRITING AND RIDING: RICHARD WILBUR BATTLES LOUISE GLUCK
Here is the game. The contest. We present the two poems: first Wilbur’s, then Gluck’s: THE WRITER In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My...
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MATTHEW DICKMAN AND SHARON OLDS ARE GROSS! AND THEY ARE FIGHTING IN THE WEST
Dickman and Olds have a popular appeal and are not afraid of gross subjects. It seems that hiding behind every other poet these days is a gross stand-up comic who talks about stuff other people are...
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MARILYN CHIN AND HEATHER MCHUGH BATTLE FOR THE FINAL ELITE EIGHT SPOT
Marilyn Chin, a shy kid who went to the University of Iowa, has three poems in Rita Dove’s Penguin anthology of 20th century poetry. She has a chance to advance to the Elite Eight in Scarriet’s third...
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FOR THE FINAL FOUR: BEN MAZER V. FRANZ WRIGHT
Is 2012 March Madness still going on? Yes. Ben Mazer and Franz Wright shit out their poems. (That’s just an expression.) They have no egos. They are like: here. a poem. You don’t fuck with Ben Mazer...
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MERWIN V. WALCOTT IN THE MIDWEST/SOUTH
W.S. Merwin, who just finished serving out his Poet Laureateship, was born in NYC. But Scarriet put him in the South bracket because Merwin is associated with Robert Graves (early Fugitive) and with...
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STEPHEN DUNN V. LOUISE GLUCK IN THE NORTH
Stephen Dunn belongs to the Billy Collins school. They should go on a poetry-reading tour together. The public needs to know: this is modern poetry which is being written for you—and here are the...
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LAST FINAL FOUR SPOT: MARILYN CHIN V. SHARON OLDS
Finally, four months (!) after our Scarriet 2012 March Madness Tournament began, we have our Final Four: Ben Mazer, Derek Walcott, Stephen Dunn, and now, Marilyn Chin or Sharon Olds. I don’t know...
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THE OCEAN: A NEW SCARRIET POEM
The ocean is always far away. The ocean is as big as the day. When you come to the shore to stay, The ocean still is far away. Sail to the ocean’s other side Where different languages reside, Where...
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THE IMAGINATION HAS A MOUTH: SCARRIET ORIGINAL
Does the imagination have a mouth? Being from the north, I travel south To cathedrals’ apses, towers, vast spaces, With nooks hiding girls With raven curls Or blonder ones with Botticelli faces. I go...
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SEMI-FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP: BEN MAZER V. DEREK WALCOTT
Mazer and Walcott are East and South champions—the winner goes on to the 2012 Scarriet March Madness Championship Game. It began with 64 of the greatest English-speaking, living poets. Soon it will...
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MARILYN CHIN AND STEPHEN DUNN LOOK TO ADVANCE TO FINAL
Marilyn Chin surprised as West champion—but it shouldn’t be a surprise, really. The best thing a poem can do for you is make someone fall in love with you who otherwise wouldn’t. (And you are not there...
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SETH ABRAMSON: HIS MFA RESEARCH & QUIXOTIC SUCKING-UP TO THE AVANT GARDE
Allen Tate: radical, avant-garde, anti-critic, and poet: one of the make-it-New-critics. Seth Abramson is following in Thomas Brady’s footsteps—Seth is trying to comprehend what I figured out a few...
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I AM TRUE TO ONE WHO CANNOT BE TRUE
True to me? You are true to the grass And the thousand roots that grow beneath your stone. You belong to the disappearing past And I, to your memory—I walk through it, alone. You cannot remember...
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