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tonight, this quiet Sommer Browning poem from Either Way I'm Celebrating & how a dash @ a lines end can charge us into white space & leave us dwelling there. in this poem the 2 dashes urge us towards both knowing & unknowing, the transformation each can cause the real stakes here https://t.co/jRu7yD8I6l

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good morning beloveds—hoping to return on Monday but until then I am so giddy to share this review of one of my favorite books of 2017, Hard Child by Natalie Shapero https://t.co/OoAG4OtZgt https://t.co/kyXORh0eoC

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on his birthday lets celebrate James Tate w 1 of my favorites: “Goodtime Jesus.” like all Tate poems, the conversational/casual voice makes the poem feel easy/uncomplicated. but simplicity isnt uncomplication. so much @ work here, especially in the turn to 1st person @ the end https://t.co/R5DpdbF51l

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if you haven't read jericho brown's two books, "PLEASE" & "THE NEW TESTAMENT" they r both truly must-reads: https://t.co/aMRI7VBiYO

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“like someone throwing a black rug over a harp/like someone bowing, in recognition” in this poem from his first book, Fugue for Other Hands, joseph fasano uses line to enact scene as a way of deepening & negotiating the speaker’s witness. https://t.co/NpDSnCBQSX

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D.A. Powell's REPAST has always been one of my holy texts, & today I've been thinking about one of my favorites, particularly the way that repetition (here, via phrase & colon) can act as an insistence that reveals vulnerability and desperation rather than comfort or security. https://t.co/oeRw2QY5O6

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today, mystery via subtle transformation in ocean vuong's "torso of air" from 2016s Night Sky With Exit Wounds. particularly thinking about those 2 dashes, in line 3 & 12, reinvigorated in my love for them after a great thread by @gracefulemilia who you should all follow. https://t.co/owYYsojc7G

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“on the train earlier that day/i nodded at a policeman/& the policeman nodded back” tonight, the 1st page of “on mass hysteria” by sam sax from madness. i’m thinking of the attention to speaker positionality & how white writers might write more rigorously about whiteness https://t.co/JK2YXWex8e

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if you haven't read jericho brown's two books, "PLEASE" & "THE NEW TESTAMENT" they r both truly must-reads: https://t.co/aMRI7VBiYO

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today, another ross gay poem from catalog of unabashed gratitude. i'm thinking about how where a line breaks against or toward a personal pronoun (in this poem: him, it) can create the propelling force in both sound and meaning, & here amplifies the tension b/t man & flute https://t.co/wlSPNFOtmY