Articles Tagged with #poetry
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Letters From the Hostel Life
Travels With Nathan
To our knowledge, Ezra Pound never saw a donkey show. Here’s updated cantos for drunk backpackers in Madrid and jerks on the Dead Sea.
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All This Debris Is Starting to Clog the System
A poem for when missing someone makes the soles of your feet hurt.
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Humility & Co.
A new poem about the things families say and do during the holidays—when some words mean nothing, and some wreck meals.
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Mikvah
A new poem, part confession, part song, about immersion and seafood soup.
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Personal Essays
The Karma Bum
When Allen Ginsberg stayed with my family, we played video games and read together. But the harmony was broken when the yoga began. It wouldn’t be the last time.
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Poem for Starlings
A reminder of why banks are terrible places to practice your stand-up comedy routine.
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Spanking the Arils From a Pomegranate
Aril: “an extra seed-covering, typically colored and hairy or fleshy, e.g., the red fleshy cup around a yew seed.”
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Slider
A new poem in which Descartes is proven wrong, and T. Rex’s Marc Bolan appears in a dream and starts thieving.
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Kentucky Derby
A new poem about jockeys, ponies, and golden eggs filled with candy, and how quickly races are won when you’re drinking.
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Platelet Count Descending
A new poem by the author of Chronic, in which Lady Sings the Blues is intoned, sung, spoken, and hollered.
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Leveling Up
An invokation of Super Mario Brothers, Buddhists, and the customers at your local Starbucks.
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Poem Written on the First Anniversary of My Father’s Death
A new poem by the author of Green Squall and winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.