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MELANIE TAFEJIAN
Salt

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Great pyramids of salt, line
the shore, coarse mounds
I'd like to climb, fly
down in a red sled.

July 23, 2021
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Season of Cherries

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Sweeter, nearly cloying as you and I
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Out of the Last Frontier

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Out of swollen bellies and wild wind waves.
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The Recursive

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Not even the water, churning forever
in the river's holiest mouth
would envy me.

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Self-Determination with the Question of Race

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If latitude and longitude. If the trees,
Once emptied, stood upright again.

July 8, 2021
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He Then Pledged

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Remember me knee-deep.
Remember me kelp-bedecked.

June 21, 2021
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

April 8, 2021
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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

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February 15, 2021
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Catherine Pond's @catherinepond FIELDGLASS (Southe Catherine Pond's @catherinepond FIELDGLASS (Southern University Press, 2021) is reviewed by Jon Lemay @jonlemay in "Hearts Washed Clean." Lemay writes:⁠ ⁠ Throughout Fieldglass, Pond capitalizes on the tension and foreboding she so skillfully and economically establishes in the collection’s first few poems—but always with a sense of slow-release and restraint. Indeed, like so many of the writers she appears to have learned under (such as Henri Cole and Honor Moore) and to have emulated (like Louise Glück and Franz Wright, both of whom Pond quotes in the book’s epigraphs), Pond has mastered the art of being understated without being the least bit underwhelming. The result is an immensely rewarding experience in which the reader is never left without something in which to find beauty or meaning. In “Tatiana” (one of three incredible persona poems written in the voice of Anastasia Romanov) a moment of sexual curiosity and discovery occurs alongside the recognition that “Outside the castle, the kingdom / fluttered apart”—which sets up a dichotomy that undergirds much of Fieldglass. Rarely do we come away from these poems without bearing witness to some sort of gentle (though not always pleasant) revelation, and always with the awareness that these revelations are being experienced in a kingdom fluttering apart—or in the aftermath of it having fluttered apart some time ago.⁠ ⁠ Read the complete review using the link in our bio!
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