June 2010

  • Fancy a Game of Splatt?

    By sarajean on 6/28/10 10:52pm
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    splattsplatt

    We used to have a big freezer in my office. It took up way too much room, so we moved it to the basement. I don’t miss the ginormous thing, but I do miss the little poetry magnets I kept on its door. When I had my daughter, a friend bought me a set of “Motherhood” poetry magnets and I turned to them over and over—not for lengthy periods of time, but for some starter fluid (as Jill Badonsky calls it) now and again when I was feeling a little blocked.

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  • Existentialism Haiku

    By msarko on 6/22/10 4:13am
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    thus spake Fred Nietzsche

    "never do what you are told"

    in so many words

  • Banana Haiku

    By msarko on 6/22/10 4:06am
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    sword of nutrition

    in a golden yellow sheath

    sweet and inviting

  • Cell Phone Haiku

    By msarko on 6/15/10 4:26pm
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    portable nuisance

    occasional convenience

    the modern day leash

  • English Haiku

    By msarko on 6/15/10 4:23pm
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    this complex language

    happy it's my native tongue

    it's so hard to learn

  • Shaving Haiku

    By msarko on 6/15/10 4:18pm
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    made smooth by a blade

    in a morning ritual

    same thing tomorrow

  • 100 Essential Modern Poems, Selected & Introduced by Joseph Parisi

    By ecoscott on 6/10/10 10:13pm
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    In 2006 my Aunt, a retired museum curator in New York City, sent me a book called, “100 Essential Modern Poems.” At the time I was still living on the road, working in deserts and rivers and cooking on a little stove I kept in the back of my car. I made zines. I drank cheap wine with my friends and we howled at the moon. It was great. What kind of time did I have to read some stuffy academics idea of the most “essential” poems of “modern” times. Take 100 days out of my life that year and I’ll give you the 100 essential poems of my modernity, you know what I mean?

    And then I picked it up the other day. Started reading it. I realized it’s a history book- that it tells the story of poetry in the last century, or at least part of it, and certainly the roots of it quite well.

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  • Drag Haiku

    By msarko on 6/7/10 5:02pm
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    wearing skirts is fun

    but convincing squares to stare

    is why it's worth it

  • Labyrinth Haiku

    By msarko on 6/7/10 4:56pm
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    a Jim Henson maze

    where David Bowie is king

    why try to escape?

  • World Cup Haiku

    By msarko on 6/7/10 4:46pm
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    millions of viewers

    yellow cards, national pride

    Earth's favorite sport