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ONLY FOR A MOMENT
Only for a moment I saw the sun, Though its influence has no end. How can immensity hide? How can my star fail to be known? Though all mankind wail and wend, And they my fiercest rays deride, I am...
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THE CHAMPIONSHIP: MARILYN CHIN V. BEN MAZER
A mid-summer evening as Scarriet’s March Madness finally draws to a close. West coast poet Marilyn Chin and east coast poet Ben Mazer clash in the championship game of Scarriet March Madness 2012....
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THE GOOD IS HERE FOR A MOMENT AND THEN IT IS GONE
The good is here for a moment and then it is gone. The music you play for yourself is the kind you like And its sweet sounds are for you and your lover alone. What if those harsher sounds you hear...
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IS POETRY MUSIC?
Yes, poetry is music. And therefore the less we say about poetry the better. It is precisely because poetry is made of words that we should use words only as a last resort to talk about it. Poe was...
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POETRY: HAWKING WITHOUT WARES, OR: IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
“Sell it for a song” —old saying The Scarriet editors happened to be reading an old Scarriet post (we’re proud to say they hold up over time) and came upon what we think is the best underlying...
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OUR HERO
for Robert Penn Warren Our hero escapes to the danceclub downstairs Where iambic dactylics gather in pairs. Songs are stupid and sad, Stories are perceptive and gay, The maid who died in one Works in...
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THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS POEM
The world is too big to be a liberal. Too many people are happy. Your complaints fall on deaf ears. A loser’s racism is just as bad as a winner’s. We’re all racists, and do you know what the liberal...
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WHY AESTHETICS IS BETTER THAN POLITICS
Politics deals with facts. Because of politics’ nature and scope, politics deals with every immediate fact in the world; immediate facts change quickly into new facts—one future fact can upset all...
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NEW SCARRIET POEM: BUT MOST OF ALL I LOVE
But Most Of All, I Love You will see me absent-mindedly failing to be Aware of creatures talking directly to me, And you think: have I the right to be this free? Should I be allowed to flounder in...
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POETRY SHOUTS THE OBVIOUS
Poetry shouts the obvious to deaf ears— It’s not a professor studying an obscure poem for years— No, a poem shouts the obvious to every one of your peers— It’s not a cabal of self-righteous queers, A...
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I’M THE FIRST
I’m the first to lie awake And the last to fall asleep. At first love makes you happy And then it makes you weep. Why is love unhappy? It’s easy to say, The first time is when you cry when your lover...
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EDGAR LEE MASTERS AND EDNA MILLAY: THEY SUCK!
Edgar Lee Masters: Not sexy, but wrote prose poetry before WC Williams Fads are born of flux, yet to their followers they’re as real as steel, or iron. Tell a member of the hardcore poetry community...
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THE GRANDE SCHOOL OF POETRY
Ben Mazer—the new Byronism of the Grande school? The disgrace of seeming pre-Modern is a stigma created by the Modernists themselves, the small clique which dominated poetry for most of the 20th...
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IMAGINATION: A NO FRILLS DEFENSE
Imagination is not just one thing we have—it is the only thing we have. Imagination is how we experience the world. No other person or thing experiences it for us. Only we experience the world—which is...
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IS MARJORIE PERLOFF SOMEONE’S CRAZY AUNT?
Perloff: Keep your status quo away from my avant-garde! The distinguished professor and critic, Marjorie Perloff, recently published an essay, “Poetry on the Brink,” which has made quite an impression...
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NEW END OF SUMMER SCARRIET POEM!!
Most Of The World Is Already Made Most of the world is already made, Christ! Moments of summer by the sea Cannot be topped by you or me. Light belongs to the sun and invades the shade. Most of the...
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MEET ME
Meet me where my eyes meet yours And jealousy is far away, Writhing on distant shores. Meet me in the lands of earth, Where comedians cannot make fun Of mountain silence and slanting sun. Meet me where...
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THE THREE TYPES OF POETRY
I like discovering new poems. I almost said new poets, but that is too personal: poetry is marvelous because it allows us to experience human delight without all the messy and inconvenient aspects of...
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HAPPINESS IS THE STANDARD
Poets know intelligent and reasonably educated people who never read literature and are content in family, career, and home; confronted with the fact of this happiness gives poets, gives those absorbed...
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IS POLITICAL INTRACTABILITY GOOD FOR LITERATURE?
Santayana: Born in Madrid in 1863, died in Rome in 1952; at Harvard with Eliot and Stevens. We don’t see how those who are morally and politically simple, no matter well-intentioned they are in matters...
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