Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

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Albert Abonado's "Rival"
Thoughts on grief and play.
Dec 7 • 
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November 2025

Samuel Cheney's "Deseret Industries Thrift"
Thoughts on wool sweaters.
Nov 30 • 
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Margaret Draft's "Colic"
Thoughts on loss and horses.
Nov 23 • 
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Evan Robinson's "Meditation Beside a Sewer Beside a Road"
Thoughts on the chorus of voices that exist inside a soul.
Nov 16 • 
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Malena Mörling's "Standing on the Earth Among the Cows"
Thoughts on being here together.
Nov 9 • 
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Maggie Dietz's "November"
Thoughts on blooming things.
Nov 2 • 
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October 2025

James Richardson's "Any Evening"
Thoughts on evenings.
Oct 26 • 
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George Kovalenko's "Spooky Action at a Distance"
Thoughts on novel-writing one month out from novel-publishing.
Oct 19 • 
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John Jeremiah Sullivan's "You Too"
Thoughts on marveling.
Oct 12 • 
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Mary Oliver's "Clam"
Thoughts on clams.
Oct 5 • 
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September 2025

Martha Silano's "Is This My Last Ferry Trip?"
Thoughts on seeing and being seen.
Sep 28 • 
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I.S. Jones' "After the Offering Ritual, Cain Carries Abel Home"
More thoughts on mercy.
Sep 21 • 
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