Poetry

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 9, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, “Time” by Nicole Callihan.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 16, 2023
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The magazine is excited to announce its new feature “Poetry at The Arts Fuse,” which will present a poem every Thursday.

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Book Review: Singing the Boomer Blues — Buddhist Version

February 14, 2023
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As cultural critique, Curtis White’s Transcendent comes across as a modest if chilly yip of Zen resignation.

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Poetry Review: “Places of Permanent Shade” – The Work and Echo of Creation

January 9, 2023
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This staunchly eclectic collection is also fiercely focused, unified by the fact that regardless of the subject, the poet never blinks, never looks away, never hesitates to name the pain.

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Poetry Review: Henry Walters’s “The Nature Thief” — Memorable Verbal Acrobatics

December 12, 2022
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The poems in this remarkable collection lead us, as all good literature should do, after all the appearances and misdirections, feints and antic dispositions, to nothing but ourselves.

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Poetry Review: John Koethe’s “Beyond Belief” – Disembodied Mind

August 22, 2022
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Poet John Koethe moralizes in an abstract “universal” space — some might call it versifying in a vacuum.

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Poetry Review: “Island Heart” — The Dance of Passion

August 9, 2022
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These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.

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Poetry Commentary: Native American Poet and Activist Joy Harjo at Tanglewood — A Disappointment

August 4, 2022
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Many have surrendered to Joy Harjo’s undeniable shamanistic charms and classify her as a national treasure.

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Short Fuse Podcast #53: Gwendolyn Brooks — A Poet’s Work in the Community

May 10, 2022
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Nic Caldwell talks with Elizabeth Howard about poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her work, and the recent acquisition of her personal papers for the Morgan Library and Museum collection and the exhibition he curated.

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Poetry Review: “Continuous Creation” — A Farewell from a Grand Old Man of Australian Verse

April 27, 2022
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Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.

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