Poetry
Here’s this week’s poem, “Poem Faux Empyrean” by Daniel Bouchard.
Surely the selfless subject of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette qualifies beyond doubt as a true heroine of the twentieth century?
The magazine is excited to announce its new feature “Poetry at The Arts Fuse,” which will present a poem every Thursday.
As cultural critique, Curtis White’s Transcendent comes across as a modest if chilly yip of Zen resignation.
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.
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.
Poet John Koethe moralizes in an abstract “universal” space — some might call it versifying in a vacuum.
These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.
Many have surrendered to Joy Harjo’s undeniable shamanistic charms and classify her as a national treasure.
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