Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

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Kim Addonizio's "Solace"
Thoughts on care.
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Rebecca Elson's "Myth"
Thoughts on five years of writing about poems.
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W.S. Merwin's "Ash"
Thoughts on remembering.
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7
Matthew Nienow's "For What It's Worth"
Thoughts on showing up.
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6
Kiki Petrosino's "To Think of Italy While Climbing the Saunders-Monticello Trail"
Thoughts on mountains.
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11
Philip Levine's "Today and Two Thousand Years from Now"
Thoughts on uselessness.
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13
Nomi Stone's "Waiting for Happiness"
Thoughts on happiness.
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Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse
Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse
Posting the occasional poem and the occasional meditation on that poem. Or, in other words: weekly essays on poetry and more.
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