Monthly Archives: November 2015

Dead Pet Poems: Andrew Hudgins and the Dangers of the Sentimental

Posted in November 18, 2015
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Sarah Freligh PQ Contributing Editor The first poems I wrote were about my cats, a pair of crabby old ladies who died within months of each other at the venerable age of eighteen. I was operating on Hemingway’s dictum to …

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One Day

Posted in November 18, 2015
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Joel Solonche   One day a poet opens his mouth and nothing comes out. This is the first time this has happened to him. He feels the words stuck in the back of his throat. He feels them tickle and …

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Review: Becoming the Sound of Bees by Marc Vincenz

Posted in November 18, 2015
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Matt Hill Becoming the Sound of Bees Marc Vincenz Ampersand Books Paperback, Perfect Bound, 112 pages ISBN: 978-09861370-0-6 http://ampersand-books.com/product/becoming-the-sound-of-bees/                                 we listened for the sound of bees & hearing nothing but the wind boxing the panes we began to hum …

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand (Plato) –or– How I Lost Faith In Poet(s)ry

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Bobbi Lurie Several years ago, I opened an email which came from a poet promoting her book “for women with cancer.” It felt like a miracle. The cancer she described sounded similar to the type of cancer my closest friend …

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Poetry and the Music of What Matters

Posted in November 18, 2015
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Bruce Bond Before I knew that love would end my willful ignorance of death, I didn’t think there was much left in me that was virgin, but there was. That’s why all good music is sad. It makes the wound …

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Perceptual Bubbles

Posted in November 18, 2015
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One thing poetry can do is grab our sunken (that is to say, sublimated or denied) preconceptions, bubble them to the surface, and pop them so close our eyes, it stings. It can be excruciating or refreshing to change direction–sometimes …

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