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WE PUT OLDER CIVILIZATIONS INSIDE OURS
Strong houses are history. There’s no mourning or loss. Small yards of vines, shrubbery, moss, Offer dignity. The wide, green lawn Seems wrong here. Crawling nature keeps crawling on. History camps...
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SAVE ME, BACH, OR MUSIC
Save me from this vanity. This vanity is such an oddity, Given to me by Jim Morrison and the Doors. This marketplace of ideas, lovely ideas from distant shores, Giving me everything, Giving me in...
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WHAT IT SAYS IT CANNOT SEE
What it says, it cannot see, Trapped in the sound of its poetry. No matter how much I want To know, my thinking is ignorant. Something beyond us loves— This is what religion proves, When truth, as...
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WHERE THERE IS HEAVEN AND EARTH
Where there is heaven and earth, Heaven is cold—we measure its worth By snow on churches melting in April. Ice covered branches are beautiful. The hope is the ice will be gone soon. Where there is...
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MARCH MADNESS!! 2019!!
It’s here once again. Poetry March Madness!! Previously, Scarriet has used Best American Poetry Series poems, Speeches by Aesthetic Philosophers, and poems of, and inspired by, Romanticism This year,...
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THE THEATER IS DARK
The theater is dark. Darkness makes us wary. Why not be theater which plays the scary? Aesthetically, it’s best to bring the lights down; Unfortunately for jester, romancer and clown, Unfortunately...
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DID GEORGE BREAK UP THE BEATLES?
“To love that well which thou must leave ere long” —Shakespeare It was Yoko. It was John. It was Paul. George, the “quiet Beatle,” cared about the music, and sat on the sidelines. No, it was George....
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POETRY MARCH MADNESS 2019 ROUND ONE ACTION
One of the contestants in the Bold Bracket—Kolkata’s great poet, Joie Bose In the Bold Bracket, first round play has been prefaced by some wild fans’ marches—the “Fan March” is a tradition in...
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THE MYSTERY BRACKET ROUND ONE, MADNESS ’19
Jennifer Barber is a poet we know nothing about. How many poets across the Internet and the bookstores and the universities today clamor for our attention? How much are we expected to know about them?...
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MARCH MADNESS MYSTERY BRACKET PLAY CONTINUES
Often the most delightful mysteries occur when we find ourselves contemplating deeply what has always been there, in plain sight. Hidden, it is off our radar, and has no chance to even be a mystery....
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CONCLUDING MARCH MADNESS MYSTERY BRACKET FIRST ROUND PLAY
Meer Nair plays in the Mystery Bracket Poetry charms us just as any other kind of speech does. This should give us pause. What is poetry, then? How do we know we’re reading poetry? In the this...
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LIFE BRACKET ROUND ONE PLAY
Semeen Ali competes in the Life Bracket with 15 other poets William Logan is known for fierce criticism. His poetry is nicer. His poetry is where his scholar smiles, that aging tour guide, who gently...
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MORE ROUND ONE ACTION IN THE LIFE BRACKET
The final play of the Life Bracket in round one features the Insta-poet Rupi Kaur, who has taken poetry to best-selling heights no one thought possible. Billy Collins sold well for a poet but Rupi...
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MORE FIRST ROUND LIFE BRACKET PLAY
Marilyn Chin When it comes to poetry, lying is either good, or it isn’t. There are several ways we can approach lying and poetry. Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was very clever in his Defense of Poetry:...
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FROM THE BEAUTIFUL BRACKET ROUND ONE
A terrible error occurred in American culture in the early 20th century: a profound turning away from the sentimental in aesthetics and life. The great poets blend the unsentimental and the...
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BEAUTIFUL BRACKET—MORE FIRST ROUND ACTION
A painting can evoke a thousand poems. A line of poetry can evoke a painting. Ann Leshy Wood, the second seed in the Beautiful Bracket, demonstrates this: “where groves of oranges rot,/and somber...
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MORE BEAUTIFUL BRACKET FIRST ROUND ACTION
Yana Djin and Sharanya Manivannan are the 4th seed v. 13th seed contest in Bracket Beautiful. Their lines have a wonderful delicacy, an overlooked quality in these paranoid, swaggering days of “hard...
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BEAUTIFUL BRACKET—THE END OF ROUND ONE
Sushmita Gupta is the sixth seed in the Beautiful Bracket: “Everything hurts,/Even that/Which seems like love.” The artist turns pain into beauty, and this transformation makes it possible to live....
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THE HUG
When we finally hug I know It will hurt you, even as you love In the forgiveness of the hug, Because, to forgive, you were so slow. Maybe there will be no hug, Since friendship and forgiveness are as...
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ON TO SWEET SIXTEEN!
The Bold Bracket How can poetry be bold? Only by going against the grain of what we expect poetry to be. All art is trapped in its traditions. Even the experimental exists within the bounds of what...
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