It’s the way society sees itself but refuses to remedy anything. There are no roses growing here. This is sidewalk chalk guiding readers through each crack in the concrete.
Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: fly on the wall press, ghosts, poetry, relationship, review
POETRY’S DEAD (UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD) – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
All poems are about ghosts, even if they’re not about ghosts. They’re all haunted by the traces of memory (the poet’s own memory, but also the ghosts of history that each word carries with it).
Categories: ESSAYS • Tags: #powerofpoetry, ghosts, Halloween, life, love, poetry, poetryquestion, power of poetry, review, rhythm and bones, spooky, the poetry question, TPQ5, words
Wars are waged. Bodies are born and bathed and dying. Language is lost. Friends and lovers, too. If we are “guardians of God’s words” then what is it exactly that we are guarding
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Reading Lyd Haven’s work makes me want them to win. Makes my real world seem to fade away, replaced with someone I want to see succeed despite and because of their troubles.
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