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WHEN ASSHOLES SAY YOU CAN’T
When assholes say you can’t, That’s exactly when you can. That’s exactly when you should Love this man. Insurance was in place For each model and clan. So they said you couldn’t Love this man....
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WHAT WE FEEL AND WHAT WE SAY
What we feel and what we say Are so different, the way To know which way I am leaning Is to heed carefully my poem’s meaning Because poetry, written on the page Is helpless to show my tears and rage....
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THE ANTI-FEMINIST VOTE: HILLARY!
Men will be delighted to put the forgiving wife of Bill Clinton in the White House. A vote for Hillary is the ultimate anti-feminist statement; anti-feminism is the sentiment that will propel the...
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WHY POETRY SUCKS NOW PART TWO: IMAGINE THERE’S NO IMAGE
Scarriet’s wildly successful essay, Why Poetry Sucks Now, [May 16, 2013] published almost 3 years ago and with more readers every day, is due for a sequel. Not because of anything in the news. Poetry...
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THE INSANE INTROVERT
Natural science has claimed victory over religion since Darwin, but philosophy is still the queen of the sciences. Facts aside, how we live is still paramount. Dinosaurs are real. God is not. So...
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ALONE I LOVE
The one who loves me is alone. Alone she loves, Without meaning or melody or tone. I saw her one day in a forest by a stream. Oh shadow. Oh blue dream. From bough to bough in my poetry I in the world...
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A POET’S LOVE CAN LOVE
A poet’s love can love One they have not loved yet, One they have not kissed yet. A poet’s love can love One who sighs for nothing On the other side of the planet. A poet’s love can love One they have...
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DON’T PRAISE ME
Don’t praise me. I will think it’s irony. I am so insecure these days. You’ll hurt me the more you love me. Your poems will make me hate you. Don’t praise. The hundred sonnets you wrote me last week I...
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A FACT FROM BOSTON: A POEM
“The fact,” I tell each Kolkata lady, a fact I say now with a solemn smile— “Will you stay, just a minute, by this imaginary magnolia for awhile?— The fact is nearly as embarrassing as its...
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EVERY SINGLE THING WE THINK IS REAL IS NOT
Every single thing we think is real is not. You loved me when the summer was hot But now that you don’t love me, that memory hurts And so I don’t think about that memory a lot, And no, I don’t even...
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2016 SCARRIET MARCH MADNESS!! BEST CONTEMPORARY LINES OF POETRY COMPETE!!!
Scarriet: You know the rules, don’t you? Marla Muse: Rules? Scarriet: The March Madness rules. Marla: Of course! A sudden death playoff within four brackets. The winner of each bracket makes it to...
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ROUND ONE COMPETITION!!! SCARRIET MARCH MADNESS 2016!!
What’s in a line of poetry? What is a line of poetry? The drink is determined by the drinker. A great line of poetry is like a shot of whiskey. A poem is like a horse race. The horses are beautiful,...
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AND NOW ROUND ONE IN THE WEST: GLÜCK AND DOUGLAS!
Mary Angela Douglas? She is what used to be called a fugitive poet, the word, “fugitive” hinting, with a shudder of mysterious delight, a poet of amateur genius, unrecognized to all but a few fellow...
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FIRST ROUND EAST ACTION: HACKER AND COLE
Marilyn Hacker enjoys first seed status in the East bracket. She has a line which feels iconic and boasts an existential romanticism: You happened to me. What are we to say to this? If the singer...
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W.S. MERWIN TAKES ON JULIE CARR
Poets should not depend on things, on pictures, on colors: that’s for painters. All the best poets know that “no ideas but in things” is the worst possible advice for the poet. Ideas use things in...
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NALINI PRIYADARSHNI TANGLES WITH RICHARD WILBUR IN THE SOUTH
Richard Wilbur, back at the end of the 20th century, told Peter Davison, then poetry editor of the Atlantic, “I love Bill Williams’s poems but his critical opinions seem to me to be nonsense. He was...
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IN THE SOUTH: CHUMKI SHARMA VERSUS TERRANCE HAYES
The philosopher Hegel said an interesting thing about language: when we say “this” we refer to something very specific—and yet nothing is more vague than the word “this.” The poet is forever not...
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IN THE EAST BRACKET: MICHAEL TYRELL BATTLES JOIE BOSE
Joie Bose belongs to the Calcutta New Wave of English-speaking poetry. Romanticism, which began with Dante’s Beatrice-devotion in Florence in the 13th century—and peaked with Shelley six centuries...
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PODDAR AND KASISCHKE GO A LITTLE BIT MAD IN THE MADNESS
Kushal Poddar is in the 2016 Madness It is becoming more and more apparent to Americans—who, for all their worldly clout and influence, have recently become fixated on their Writing Program,...
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