Crisosto Apache
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Mescalero Apache Educator/Poet Na. Am. 2SLGBTQI Lives in Denver, CO
https://linktr.ee/crisostoapache
This scene kept rolling around my head today.
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Network (1976) - I'm Mad As Hell Scene | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
https://youtu.be/_RujOFCHsxo?si=OFYeRKy4038demDH
about 16 hours ago
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Here is an interview I did with Radha Marcum, author of "Pine Soot Tendon Bone" (Washington Prize 2023). "I do think that imagery comes first. When I start to think about a concept, it's always the images that come first."
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In Dialog with Ghosts
Poet Crisosto Apache discusses how their poetry collection Ghostword emerged in conversation with the works of Japanese writer Ryƫnosuke Akutagawa
https://poettopoet.substack.com/p/in-dialog-with-ghosts?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
6 days ago
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12 days ago
Join award-winning author Todd Mitchell in a conversation about the Creative Process and Creative Practice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ln...
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The CAL Zone: Episode 5 Interview With Todd Mitchell
YouTube video by Colorado Authors League
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ln7SGnnlI
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East Window (Boulder, CO, USA) Writers on Resistance Hillary Leftwich, Rajiv Mohabir, and Crisosto Apache Thursday, 1-29-2026, 7-9âŻPM. An evening of writers speaking to the moment we live in. Reading pieces that reflect approaches to resistance, care, and truth-telling.
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Writers on Resistance and Open Mic
YouTube video by Crisosto Apache
https://youtu.be/ZodO3HbFuZ0?si=f-jFX_PE9SvqccFF
13 days ago
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You can listen to my interview with Colorado Public Radio about my laureate acceptance, following the press conference. Wednesday, January 29, 2026.
www.cpr.org/2026/01/28/c...
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Crisosto Apache named Coloradoâs newest poet laureate
Apache is the first indigenous poet to hold the position.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/01/28/crisosto-apache-colorados-new-poet-laureate/
13 days ago
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News coverage of my laureate acceptance. Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announces new poet laureate, Crisosto Apache
YouTube video by CBS Colorado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBE-FJ7h3RA
13 days ago
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Linktree in my bio. The secret is out now. I am excited to be named Colorado's 11th Poet Laureate for 2026 - 2027 by Governor Jared Polis @govofco. I join the ranks of the great poets who preceded me. To be honest, this news came as a total surpriseâI never dreamed Iâd be in this position.
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Thursday evening I received stupendous. I would have never thought I would be taking on this task for what I am about to do! I am terrified but mostly excited. There are a few who already know, but that is all I can say for now because... "it's a surprise. Do you like surprises?"
21 days ago
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LINKTREE In Bio: East Windowâs Banned Book Club 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2, Boulder, CO 80304 Writers on Resistance, Thursday, 1-29-26 7-9 PM Rajiv Mohabir, Hillary Leftwich, & Crisosto Apache will each read pieces that reflect resistance, care, & truth.
24 days ago
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Isis ... ICE both government sanctioned entities ordered (normalized) to murder (assassinate) its citizens without impunity. American citizens stand by and do nothing but post on social media. Maybe, modern American citizens will know what Indigenous people's went through. Something to think about.
about 1 month ago
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A distinguished voice unnecessarily lost to senseless violence. "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" by Renée Nicole Macklin (Good)
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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs
about 1 month ago
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A podcast series, "Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast" [32:37]. I speak about my 2nd book "Ghostword" (Gnashing Teeth Publication) & the influence of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a modernist Japanese writer, & his last manuscript "A Fool's Life".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
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10: A New Old Poetic Vision â A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
YouTube video by Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LspsAe6HvBE&t=10s
about 1 month ago
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I'm seeking a few writers who might be interested in writing a review and have access to publishing the review for my current poetry collection "is(ness). Serious inquiries only. You can message me and I can get you in touch with my publisher.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
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is(ness) - Gnashing Teeth Publishing
The poetry collection "is(ness)" is all about capturing the importance of time and presence. Much like taking a snapshot of moments in stillness, similar to a photograph or painting. These poems refle...
https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
2 months ago
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"In a moment when few films receive that coveted theatrical releaseâand a lot of great old titles are out-of-service, out-of-print, or out-of-mind to begin withâthe stacks are where itâs at. And libraries have begun to capitalize on the peopleâs nostalgia for objects."
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Have libraries have become the new Blockbuster?
Streaming is over. The magazine is back. And everyone whoâs too online is apparently getting off again. The time is ripe for an analog revolution. And where better to start than the stacks? AâŠ
https://lithub.com/have-libraries-have-become-the-new-blockbuster/
2 months ago
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âTone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.â -- Walt Whitman
www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/13/m...
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The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/13/marcus-aurelius-meditations-robin-waterfield/
2 months ago
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THE WILD IRIS, by Louise GlĂŒck "You who do not remember passage from the other world I tell you I could speak again: whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice:"
www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise GlĂŒck on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
âWhatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.â
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/louse-gluck-wild-iris/
2 months ago
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Book Purchase â LINK R TREE in the bio. is(ness)â is listed as 1 of the books to read & buy in the CLMPâs Year-end Roundups. Instagram: âclmporg: [...] browse 950 books of poetry, [...] published by CLMP member presses in 2025.â
www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
2 months ago
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"THANKS" by W.S. Merwin "with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you thank you we are saying and waving dark though it is"
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"Thanks" by W.S. Merwin (read by Maria Popova)
YouTube video by Maria Popova
https://youtu.be/hGguF2FmMJA?si=fTHpncOgNW91s2is
3 months ago
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My poem âGahĂ© DzĂĆ / Mountain Spiritsâ from my new book âis(ness) has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks! This means that a poem from each of my books released has been nominated for this award. Now itâs a cross-my-fingers moment until they announce. Maybe 3rd time's a charm?
3 months ago
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Did an interview for my new book "is(ness)" for KDNK Radio: Regional Roundup | Episode 130 (last segment of the show). The conversation discusses the title concept of my book and some conceptual ideas for the book. I read "Diminishing Space Between the Mouth".
www.kdnk.org/podcast/regi...
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Regional Roundup | Episode 130
This week's Regional Roundup is a special in honor of Native American Heritage Month. We'll hear about the unique sister-city relationship between Longmont, Colorado, and the Northern Arapaho of the W...
https://www.kdnk.org/podcast/regional-roundup/2025-11-20/regional-roundup
3 months ago
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Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision â A Conversation with Crisosto Apache. I had an exciting conversation with Itto Outini and Mekiya Outini on their podcast, The Datekeepers (the fruit), about my poetry. Take a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
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Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision â A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
YouTube video by Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LspsAe6HvBE&t=6s
3 months ago
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My new poetry collection "is(ness)" was just released in September. Copies are still to be had. Grab your copy or share this post. More media to come. Thanks for your support. If you are teaching my new book, I will do a Zoom visit to your class if invited.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
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is(ness) - Gnashing Teeth Publishing
The poetry collection "is(ness)" is all about capturing the importance of time and presence. Much like taking a snapshot of moments in stillness, similar to a photograph or painting. These poems refle...
https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
3 months ago
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Happening tonight (11-7-2025), still time to register for this free event. I am reading from my new poetry collection "is(ness)" & having a conversation with Distiny Leftwich at the Denver Public Library from 6 to 8 pm. Drop what you are doing & come listen.
denverlibrary.libcal.com/event/14240369
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Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich
Author Circle with Crisosto Apache Join us for an intimate evening in the round as poet, educator, and activist Crisosto Apache (Mescalero Apache / Diné) shares from is(ness), a ...
https://denverlibrary.libcal.com/event/14240369
3 months ago
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Writing sacrifice - Allen Ginsberg taught me while attending the Naropa Summer Writing Program back in the early 90s' to "Do not be afraid to kill your darlings." I have sense turned that phrase into "Do not be afraid to rehire those darlings", and repurpose lines or words I have rejected.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Here is a podcast I did about a month ago with The Date Keepers (as in the fruit), which has finally been released. In this episode, I discuss language in poetics. Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision â A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsps...
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Episode 10: A New Old Poetic Vision â A Conversation with Crisosto Apache
YouTube video by Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LspsAe6HvBE
3 months ago
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"[...] itâs certainly fair to say that the dreams of some are more interesting than the dreams of others, and the dreams of artists (in this case writers, because hey, look around) fall into that former camp."
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No One Cares About Your DreamsâUnless Youâre a Famous Writer
Itâs true: no one likes to listen to other people describe their dreams. Itâs unfair, of course, because pretty much everyone loves to describe their dreamsâeven if theyâre too poâŠ
https://lithub.com/no-one-cares-about-your-dreams-unless-youre-a-famous-writer/
3 months ago
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My recently published book "is(ness)", Gnashing Teeth Publishing, is listed as one of the CLMP's reading lists for November. Check out all the other Indigenous authors. There are some great titles.
www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
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A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend r...
https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-native-american-heritage-month-2025/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANuaShjbGNrA25n3WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEevAa0eMVj-1KxE0PQlZCZv8m3R-189zdeQx7v-96GqIrnOBXfL0K13sByWck_aem_B9f5s8eFdAhxsotaItxPWg
4 months ago
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Poet & Book Seller, Lawrence Ferlingghetti. "An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghettiâs work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon." Dean Rader, September 14, 2025.
hyperallergic.com/1040981/pain...
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Painting Was His First Love, But Poetry Got in the Way
An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghettiâs work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon.
https://hyperallergic.com/1040981/painting-was-lawrence-ferlinghetti-first-love-but-poetry-got-in-the-way/
4 months ago
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COMING UP SOON! Central Library - 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy Denver, CO Author Circle: Crisosto Apache in Conversation with Destiny Leftwich Date: Friday, November 7, 2025, 6pm - 8pm Registration-FREE: Link in bioâLinktree
#DenverPublicLibrary
#FallReads
#DenverEvents
#AuthorTalks
#LiteraryDenver
4 months ago
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After seven years, it's time to say goodbye to GENESIS. But hopefully not forever. I've got to look into a second printing with a different publisher and get this collection in its original concept. I'm open to legitimate serious suggestions.
4 months ago
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Sign up for my poetry class. Lighthouse-Workshop, Sunday, November 02, 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/poe...
Poetry Fest: "Capturing the SubconsciousâLucid Imagery of Dreams as Truth in Poetry" "Dreams are a mysterious concept [...]..."
4 months ago
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I AM GOING TO BE THERE. ARE YOU?
www.eastwindow.org/events/journ...
Thursday, October 9th, 2025 East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts RELEASE PARTY 7:00âŻPM - 9:00âŻPM East Window 4550 Broadway Ste C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304
4 months ago
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Here is a recently published heartfelt poem by my friend David Mason (former Colorado Poet Laureate), who wrote a blurb for my book "is(ness)". "Well-made and wearing out, they were a pair of characters framed at the end of the road."
rattle.com/old-shoes-by...
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Old Shoes by David Mason - Rattle: Poetry
News comes of more killing in America, the usual recriminations filling the fountains of blame.
https://rattle.com/old-shoes-by-david-mason/
5 months ago
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If you missed the reading or were unable to attend, the link to the recorded sessions is listed on my YouTube Channel by name. You can also listen to the Q&A that followed the reading.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCgK...
5 months ago
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Reading Tonight! [LINK IN THE BIO]
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-ea...
Rajiv Mohabir, âSEABEASTâ Crisosto Apache, âis(ness)â Marcia B. Douglas, âThe Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkiveâ Shop at Matter Bookstore, 2114 Market St, Denver, CO 80205 Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 pm-8:30 pm.
5 months ago
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"Peering beyond the immediate situation, beyond this particular moment in life, she [Sylvia Plath] casts a darkly prognostic eye toward the rosary of moments stringing her uncertain future â a future that would soon include a passionate but damaging love,..."
www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/18/s...
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Sylvia Plath and the Loneliness of Love
âLife is loneliness⊠Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship â but the loneliness of the soul, in its appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering.â
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/18/sylvia-plath-journals-loneliness-love/
5 months ago
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My 3rd poetry collection has dropped. If you preordered (thank you), they should be on their way. If not, you can order it here
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
5 months ago
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Ever since my spouse passed away, I have not been posting much. I will soon get back to it. Patience, please.
5 months ago
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Excited to announce that my new poetry collection "is(ness)" set for release September 2025. I encourage you to reserve your copy & preorder. This collection offers a unique experience, distinct from my previous works. Secure your copy by preordering today.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
6 months ago
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"[...] this capturing of the surface of emotional fact is useful for other people in that it jolts them into thinking, into doing their own act of understanding."
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...
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Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88
âI write to find out what I think about something.â
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5420/the-art-of-poetry-no-88-anne-carson
7 months ago
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"Hesse offers a hierarchical taxonomy predicated on the same sentiment. He outlines three key types, which can similarly coexist within a single reader over the course of a lifetime, [...]".
www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/h...
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Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
âAt the hour when our imagination and our ability to associate are at their height, we really no longer read what is printed on the paper but swim in a stream of impulses and inspirations thaâŠ
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/hermann-hesse-types-of-readers/
7 months ago
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"When we name things simply, with words preceding their meaning, a cosmic narration takes place. Does the discovery of origins remove the dust?" --Etel Adnan (1925-2021).
www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/e...
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Shifting the Silence to Find the Meaning: 95-Year-Old Artist, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on How to Live and How to Die
âThe universe makes a sound â is a sound. In the core of this sound thereâs a silence, a silence that creates that sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul⊠Silence isâŠ
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/16/etel-adnan-shifting-the-silence/
7 months ago
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"Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington"
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Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington
YouTube video by Raymond Foye
https://youtu.be/ZlWwkaDNZQQ?si=YtuGrtUnopJn2zu9
7 months ago
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"I don't think I ever decided on a career as a poet. I began by writing a few little verses, but I never thought any of them would be published or that I would go on to publish books."
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3...
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John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33
âI often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.â
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3014/the-art-of-poetry-no-33-john-ashbery
7 months ago
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"The song does remember the deceased, and itâs the song that helps the deceased move onâto ascend, in the words of the poem, to the next life.[...] apply it to senses of transition [...]."
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...
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Nathaniel Mackey, The Art of Poetry No. 107
âBy making breath more evident, more material, more dwelled-upon, they make black breath matter, implicitly insist that black lives matter.â
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7534/the-art-of-poetry-no-107-nathaniel-mackey
7 months ago
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"(Donald) Hall considers the secret to the kind of lasting love that blooms between the mundane and the magical."
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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
âThird things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.â
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/13/donald-hall-the-third-thing/
7 months ago
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"A confessional poem is more diary-like and confined to the here and now and without much aesthetic dignity."
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...
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Henri Cole, The Art of Poetry No. 98
âIn truth, Iâm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. Iâd rather say, I make poems.â
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6312/the-art-of-poetry-no-98-henri-cole
7 months ago
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"To teach creative writingâI think thatâs dangerous. [...] âwhere a poet who was very busy got students to finish his poems for him. Then youâd really be teaching, and youâd be responsible, of course, since the results would go out under the poetâs name."
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3...
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W. H. Auden, The Art of Poetry No. 17
On hippies: âWhat I do like about them is that they have tried to revive the spirit of âCarnival.â But I'm afraid that when they renounce work entirely, the fun turns ugly.â
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3970/the-art-of-poetry-no-17-w-h-auden
7 months ago
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"[...] there is something built into our national system, self-destruction, that goes round and round; repetition without progress; evolution of disagreements."
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Gnostic Ironies: New Poetry by Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe - Image Journal
Like Mackey, [Howe] is forced to interpret the historical recurrence of evil as cruelly fated; human beings are the unwitting playthings of what she calls, in Manimal Woe, âthe mystery of repetition.â
https://imagejournal.org/article/gnostic-ironies-new-poetry-by-nathaniel-mackey-and-fanny-howe/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLeOLRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHg-C7MimJsTO1Z0Yw4j80zSKvUK3-2wtlWf3kSJCLIZtkGQ4SgYACcVbuN56_aem_SUhxmmETvtRzip_hIbuxSQ
7 months ago
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"On an archival On Being episode titled âOpening to Our Lives,â mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn reads Walcottâs masterpiece â undoubtedly one of the greatest, most soul-stretching poems ever written."
www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/21/l...
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Love After Love: Derek Walcottâs Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak
âSit. Feast on your life.â
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/21/love-after-love-derek-walcott/
7 months ago
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