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Mark Statman: Three Poems
Mark Statman has written eleven books, among them the poetry collections Hechizo (Lavender Ink, 2022), Exile Home (Lavender Ink, 2019), That Train Again (Lavender Ink, 2015), A Map of the Winds (Lavender Ink, 2013) and Tourist at a Miracle (Hanging Loose, 2010).
John Yamrus: excerpt from Five Dogs
By John Yamrus on December 2, 2020 in Main Posts, Poetry one day we heard about this intelligence test for dogs…you put a cloth or a blanket or some other kind of a covering over your dog and the faster he or she got out from under it, the smarter he or she was. well, one day we took a throw from off the couch and put it over Phoebe. i don’t think anyone but NASA or NASCAR could accurately measure the time it took for her to flip the blanket off and run down the hall. we couldn’t believe our eyes.
John Yamrus and Nuestros Amigos Peludos (our furred friends): an Appreciation by Mark Statman
By Mark Statman on December 2, 2020 in Poetry, Spotlight About ten or so years ago I was teaching an introduction to writing poetry course. One of the requirements was that students had to present the work of a living poet not on the syllabus who had published at least two books or the equivalent and that this poet should be someone they really thought the rest of the students studying in the class needed to read. One of the students asked me if she could present John Yamrus.
Go Back and Fetch It
To understand the great body of work that Lucille Clifton left after her death in 2010—the evolving body, for more poems are being excavated all the time—you must understand that Black history informs much of her work. There is the generous verse she offered everyone, regardless of racial or gender identification. This was her benediction, and because of that gift, many want to read disembodied, deracinated impulses in Clifton’s poems, seeking a so-called universal meaning.
Mark Statman: Three Poems
Selected by Alexis Rhone Fancher, Poetry Editor By Mark Statman on July 1, 2020 in Main Posts, Poetry el adios de siempre the pins were dropping everywhere as if there was no future to speak of anymore that this was a circle or a cube or a glass jar in which we’d put some fireflies or some sparks of stone or a god once worshipped moved by the earth and of it our sadness grows lengthening not so much like a dream but a trial by cold and wind an enormous burden someone has to carry as a perfect...
Hidden Beauty: Using a Poem by Jayne Cortez
FROM THE ARCHIVES: This article originally appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine Volume 29, Issue 3.
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