May 2012
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You can’t get out of this one, Henry, you can’t get it out of me, and with this...
– Richard Siken
This is just a post to say thank you to passingboats for the submission (it’s in the queue) and to remind everyone to submit things!
Submit quotes, favorite poems, art, pictures, whatever you have and whatever you can find, I’d love to see it!
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April 2012
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kathleenjoy:
James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the poems. Can you talk about how you construct a poem’s emotion without letting that emotion subsume the poem? What tools are available to a poet to mitigate emotion successfully?
Richard Siken: I didn’t see it as risking anything, and I suppose the tool for mitigating emotion is undercutting, but I’ll try to answer the question...
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