I confess now that I inserted a small allusion of my own, which, as a translator, I shouldn’t do, but as a poet, I’ve always believed a poem should contain a secret. The poem could just as well have said "on the other side of the universe" or "cosmos" but I went with "across the universe" to jive with the other Beatles’ references in "Radio Days."Sue Hyon Bae on"Old Bed" |
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"How William Blake Became Rock’s Favourite Poet"
"'The thing about Blake is that he appears unexpectedly,' observes John Higgs, the author of William Blake vs the World. 'He comes to us in memes, horror films, video games and pop songs. These are not respectable routes for information. You fall off the tracks and Blake is there, waiting to be discovered.'"
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What Sparks Poetry: Jessica Fisher on Language as Form
"When the voice began, it wasn’t mine, nor did it belong to anyone else in particular—it was instead something like the possibility of speech beginning again, after a period of long silence. Writing often begins for me with this form of potential opening, and the work is to follow the voice as it accrues—or, to follow its underlying rhythm. I love that the I/you relation so central to lyric poetry can accommodate a simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, that there doesn’t have to be any external circumstance to which the poem refers." |
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2024 Able Muse Contests Submit Now
WRITE PRIZE (poetry & fiction): $500 each + publication Final Judges: Hailey Leithauser (poetry), Nina Schuyler (fiction). $15 entry: deadline: March 15, 2024
BOOK AWARD (poetry): $1000 + book publication Final Judge: Timothy Steele. $25 entry: deadline: March 31, 2024 |
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