Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

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Jennifer Grotz’s “Over and Above”
Thoughts on attending.
Aug 30 • Devin Kelly
Mary O’Malley’s “Holy”
Thoughts on what is holy.
Aug 23 • Devin Kelly
Michael Bazzett's "The Man Kept Reaching"
Thoughts on the surreal.
Aug 16 • Devin Kelly
Ron Padgett's "In Fact"
Thoughts on gendered criticism, shallow judgments, crude attention, and more.
Aug 9 • Devin Kelly
Phillip B. Williams' "Paradise"
Thoughts on a politics of repetition.
Aug 2 • Devin Kelly

July 2026

Maya C. Popa's "Had We But World Enough"
Thoughts on the beauty of risk.
Jul 26 • Devin Kelly
Charlie Smith's "The Rose"
Thoughts on helplessness.
Jul 19 • Devin Kelly
Claudia Emerson's "Metaphor"
Thoughts on one cure for loneliness.
Jul 12 • Devin Kelly
Rachel Zucker's "Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits"
Thoughts on six years of writing about poems.
Jul 5 • Devin Kelly

June 2026

Michael Ondaatje's "Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus"
Thoughts on being in the grip of one another.
Jun 28 • Devin Kelly
Norman Dubie's "A Grandfather's Last Letter"
Thoughts on sweetness.
Jun 21 • Devin Kelly
Ross Gay's "Overheard"
Thoughts on the intimacy of a city.
Jun 14 • Devin Kelly
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