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Epilogue: Agree to Agree
If you agree to agree, your mind becomes sure. — from Japji The rooster shows up unbidden. One day in October I pull up into my driveway and there he is, sitting on the cinder block wall between our… more →
Wounded World
Another Snippetizer
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Thank you for your kind response, Dear Readers, to the first excerpt I posted from my lyric essay la … more →
Received with blank faces.
wrote 3 weeks ago: Week Eight has consisted of applying for corporate jobs, reading beautiful lyric essays and writing … more →
Eagle Spots Dog
wrote 3 weeks ago: The hum of power lines like whistling oblivion. In the middle of a yard. Over there the fields stret … more →
Contradiction and Community: A Talk with Dan Magers
wrote 3 weeks ago: The poetic work of Dan Magers is challenging and engaging, beautiful and mysterious. A few weeks ago … more →
NaPoWriMo Day...Oh, who am I kidding?
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wrote 4 weeks ago: So instead of writing poems the last few days, I’ve been working on a lyric essay project. I s … more →
Lyric Essay: John D'Agata
wrote 1 month ago: With John D’Agata’s The Lifespan of a Fact, we explore the realm of the lyric essay. We … more →
A Scratch on the Screen
wrote 1 month ago: There’s a picture of my dad in my parents’ bedroom. He’s maybe three or four. It is from around 1966 … more →
America
wrote 1 month ago: I am back in America. Trees stretch like paint gobs. The sky is as large as the Walmart that we end … more →
Bus Ride Mambo
wrote 1 month ago: (This was an lyric assignment for a non-fiction writing class I did based on this post. I enjoyed it … more →
Joni Tevis on the long lyric essay
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wrote 1 month ago: I just read this very interesting text by Joni Tevis called : A Paperback Cabine of Wonder: Unlockin … more →
Mystery Hybrid: Further Thoughts on the Lyric Essay
wrote 1 month ago: I did a recent post on an article featuring explanations of the lyric essay and today I would like t … more →
Smile, Villain, for the Wolf is American: On Charles Willeford's High Priest of California
wrote 1 month ago: The High Priest of California–a “smiling villain:” treacherous, lecherous–a … more →
Smearing the Silver Film
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wrote 1 month ago: I have not read anything by Katey Schultz. I have, however, thanks to the wonders of Google, come ac … more →
Ander Monson:: Essay as Hack
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wrote 1 month ago: Ander Monson:: Essay as Hack Ander Monson gives so much to think about I find myself too jittery to … more →
Goblins: An Essay on Troll 2
wrote 1 month ago: I am in the middle of a lyric essay project abusing various “B” and exploitation films, … more →
Voluptuous Panic: Further Thoughts on the Lyric Essay
wrote 2 months ago: A Voluptuous Panic: Further Thoughts on the Lyric Essay The link above, which I encourage you to vis … more →
Tarantino Poetics: On Danny Brown
wrote 2 months ago: It’s something about you and for you to tuck into your pocket when you fall back asleep and it … more →
Toward a Definition of the Lyric Essay: Observations on The Seneca Review
wrote 2 months ago: This article is probably more for my own understanding than anything else, but if it helps a few peo … more →
On Fire
wrote 2 months ago: She says four cars burned last night–”you can’t imagine the front, there is nothin … more →
