Poetry
Poetry
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Alex LemonAlex Lemon's first collection of poems is Mosquito (Tin House Books). Hallelujah Blackout will be published in 2008 by Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such magazines as BOMB, Kenyon Review, Tin House, Denver Quarterly, AGNI, Gulf Coast and Pleiades. He is also a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review, and co-editor of LUNA. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. A memoir is also forthcoming from Scribner.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
“POETRY AS FORCES” AFTER Cecilia Vicuña
By Andrea Abi-KaramAPR 2019 | Critics Page
The "about to happen" / "poetry as forces" when Cecilia Vicuña says that the lies (the words, the language) of the Chilean dictatorship murdered & tortured thousands of people I remember the power of the word & i remember the power of poetry—"made of forces"—that holds something in the action of language
Uncle Ho’s Poetry
By Richard TuttleFEB 2018 | Poetry
Richard Tuttle recently showed with James Ensor – a hero, whom he feels has brought the verbal and visual to the same plane, as well as contributing to the literature of artists who write about art – in Ostend, Belgium. Enlisting as a pilot in Vietnam, the Air Force decided Tuttle could not be trusted to "push the button", and gave an honorable discharge. The wounds of those years, for many, he believes, are still not healed. A suggested reading list from RT: Ho Chi Minh: A Life, by William J. Duiker; Down With Colonialism! (speeches of Ho Chi Minh, with an introduction by Walter Bello), & The Prison Poems of Ho Chi Minh (with an intro and photos by Larry Towell; also in various editions).
Why Poetry Now
By Ann LauterbachAPR 2018 | Editor's Message
A friend recently handed me a bumper sticker that reads WHO NEEDS POETRY. A question in the form of a statement.
Robin Richardson’s Try Not to Get Too Attached
By Megan N. LibertyMAR 2020 | Art Books
Including paragraphs of prose poetry and drawings with hand drawn lines of text, Richardson’s visual-verbal poetry collection speaks to the condition of being a woman today.
