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Poplars and tentacles
Poplars by Donald Revell from Poetry Daily. Audio by me below. Hm. This one was hard for me to pull together and I have questions about it. On a broad level I read it as an environmental lament, on gl… more →
A Bundle of Biases
Poplars
verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: by Donald Revell from Poetry Daily text my review … more →
In Another Year of Fewer Disappointments
verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: by Eliza Griswold from Poetry Daily text my review … more →
Poplars and tentacles
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verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: Poplars by Donald Revell from Poetry Daily. Audio by me below. Hm. This one was hard for me to pull … more →
An angel, a gunwale and a rib
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verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: Looking at In Another Year of Fewer Disappointments by Eliza Griswold from Poetry Daily. The double- … more →
The Minotaur
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verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: Inside the Maze by Hadara Bar-Nadav from Poetry Daily. By and large this worked very well indeed for … more →
A woodpecker, a horse and the sun
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verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: On a Woodpecker Drinking from a Knothole Still Full of the Last Rain by Maurice Manning, from Verse … more →
The dead, a sparrow and palmetto fronds
verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: Why Bother Resurrecting the Dead by Jane Springer, from Verse Daily. I read this as a doctrinal poem … more →
Seals!
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verylikeawhale wrote 2 years ago: Looking today at Imagining Seals by Susanna Roxman. Seals are one of the many other things I’m a suc … more →
Pentecost, pine tops, monkish rain
verylikeawhale wrote 3 years ago: Looking at this one today. The Fourth Hour of the Afternoon by Michael Chitwood, in Field, via Poetr … more →
An old lady and a frog
verylikeawhale wrote 3 years ago: I really enjoyed this one, Lauderdale by Laura Newbern in Poetry. I read as an expression of lonelin … more →
Milkweed spores, jellyfish, atoms and stars
verylikeawhale wrote 3 years ago: Looking at this today, The Future by Campbell McGrath in the Virginia Quarterly Review. I was initia … more →
Going for this one
verylikeawhale wrote 3 years ago: OK, I really like this. Asking for more by Sarah Manguso. Makes me think of Yvor Winters – clanging … more →
Starting slow
verylikeawhale wrote 3 years ago: OK. We’re starting slow. With this one. By Teresa Svoboda over at Blackbird. Motion Makes Us C … more →
