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RENAISSANCE VERSUS MODERNISM IN A ROMANTICISM SMACK-DOWN!
Michael Drayton—a metaphysical poet never included with the Metaphysicals—takes on John Crowe Ransom The sweet flower that was Romanticism (late 18th cent—early 19th cent, Amer Rev, French Rev,...
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“LET THINGS DARKEN AS THEY WILL” DUNN BATTLES DONNE
Can Dunn run with Donne? In this contest—the penultimate First Round game as we round out things in the East—we have two monumental poems expounding iconic, monumental opposite beliefs and doing...
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THE FINAL FIRST ROUND CONTEST: LOUIS SIMPSON, GEORGE HERBERT
Louis Simpson in his last days. The poet did not live to see himself in Scarriet 2013 March Madness: Romanticism The final combatants in the first round of Scarriet’s Fourth Annual March Madness...
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THERE IS NO BEAUTY, TRULY—ORIGINAL SCARRIET POEM
There is no beauty, truly. The loveliest person Never knows they are beautiful. Their lovers do not have to be. The rhetoric of seduction, Is no proof of beauty, Even when fruitful, Even in the...
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JANET HOLMES AND THE SECRETS OF PO-BIZ SUCCESS
Reading over Silliman’s blog-links (he sometimes links a Scarriet article, and we’ll notice a small jump in our readership) I came across a little piece by the poet and Ahsahta press editor, Janet...
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NEW SCARRIET POEM
A DREAM A crowd was at the station before you, Women in various shapes, The ones who had sons Proud of their sons, Grandmothers also in the crowd Calling out to their children’s Children who swarmed...
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BURY HIM!
The rebellious Antigone comes to bury her dishonored brother. The controversy surrounding the remains of the first Marathon Bomber is revealing Boston, Cambridge, and other Massachusetts communities...
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THE TWO FREEDOMS
Eileen Myles: Nature offers so few choices. Man. Woman. What a drag. But the real dilemma: avant-garde outside the institution has no cred. The most memorable moment at the sunny but chilly 2013...
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SWEET SIXTEEN: NORTH. BURNS AND GOETHE: CIVILIZE ME WITH LOVE
Goethe and Burns battle with poems of exquisite love. Post-modern theories in abeyance, here is civilizing emotion, whose benefits justify these stupid sentiments. Be stupid, be sentimental, be...
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EVERYONE IS GOING: A NEW SCARRIET POEM
Everyone is going, The swift and the saintly, Surrendering to the call, To the heart’s dungeon, Where eyes do not help— This is where we fall. Everyone is a monster, Monsters to themselves, Monsters...
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WHY POETRY SUCKS NOW
Okay, first…poetry now does suck, so let’s stop pretending it doesn’t. We shall demolish the simple argument most commonly used to defend today’s poetry: Every era has good and bad poetry. Yes, every...
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DOES NARRATIVE MAKE US STUPID?
Is story-telling food for the fool? Scarriet often gives poetry a hard time, and this, we are sure, offends various poets and those who teach poetry—who are really trying the best they can, etc ok...
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A NEW SCARRIET POEM
Legum Servi Sumus Ut Liberi Esse Possimuslegum Servi Sumus Ut Liberi Esse Possimus I might not go, I might not go. Now that she’s there And now that you know. I might not go, I might not go. For she’s...
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THEY DON’T ALWAYS TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
They don’t always tell you what you need to know. In the crowded corridors where they whispered low, They don’t know, they don’t know, they don’t know. The truth is in chains and ignorance all aglow....
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THE BOAT RACE: NEW SCARRIET POEM
I love sleep. I cannot wake From my dreams which contain dreams: Poison discovered at the bottom of the cup. My reality is not poisoned by what seems. Reality is increased by illusion; illusion...
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ANOTHER DOOR BREAKS THROUGH: RAY MANZAREK
It might be safe to say that the most popular debate in American literature over the last 50 years has been this one: Were the lyrics of Jim Morrison and The Doors good poetry? Or crap? Is inspired...
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NEW SCARRIET POEM
NON OMNIS MORIAR We walk about, amid the destinies of our world-existence, encompassed by dim but ever present Memories of a Destiny more vast. –Poe, “Eureka” You are not you, and I am not I, We are...
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IN POETRY THERE IS TOO MUCH KNOWING
No poetry can save The poetry that is going Into the brain of the poet; In poetry there is too much knowing. Outside it’s raining; inside it’s snowing. No poetry can save The poetry that is going Into...
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THE MOON SUFFICES: SCARRIET PREMIERE
Exquisite poets in France Write of beautiful Italian faces Who make them want to dance. Do poets need books to cover up their vices? The moon suffices. I knew a woman with nieces Who had such...
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ODE TO A CERTAIN EVENING
No matter what we say or do not say, No matter what we do or do not do, Night will remain this way. Night will send forth rumors of the day Even as beauty covers them, and me, and you. If Night is...
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