Misunderstanding Poetry
I took the AP Literature examination near the end of my junior year in high school. From what I recall, …
November 2014
Wendy Xu’s “the years”
To appreciate Wendy Xu’s poem I begin insensate. Her sentences do not cohere, so I abandon them completely. Her line …
Friends:
SPR Annual, creative sister to SHARKPACK Poetry Review, is live and on the prowl. The site is beautiful, sleek, content-forward, and fluid. Spend some time with new poems by Joanna Klink, Ross Barnes-Moore, Laura Goode, Daniel Bosch, Daneen Wardrop, Aimée Sands, and winner of our inaugural Prospero Prize, Nels Hanson. The issue also features the strange visual worlds of Darren Hopes.
For your theoretical and critical fix, review SPR Annual‘s ‘Comment’ section, with essays by editors Joseph Spece and Stephanie Adams-Santos.
Kevin Prufer’s “A Plastic Bag Caught in a Tree”
Prufer’s poem traffics, albeit poorly, in many of the conventional ideas that under-gird our poetic moment: —nailed-down meaning is a world abandoned; …
