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Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn

Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn

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Pure Poetry #33: Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Marisa Meltzer

“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”

Marisa

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Mar 29, 2011
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Pure Poetry #32: Gertrude Stein & Mina Loy

Did you know that Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy were friends? Do you even know…

Emily

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Mar 29, 2011
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Pure Poetry #31: Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.

Morgan

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Mar 28, 2011
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Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You

“You can’t trust lesbians. You invite them / to your party and they don’t come,…

Riese

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Mar 24, 2011
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Sarah Kay on TED

“I don’t know if I could change the world, yet, because I don’t know that…

jul

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Mar 22, 2011
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Pure Poetry #29: Sylvia Plath is Depressing

Once upon a time I hated Sylvia Plath. Now I don’t! How did this happen?…

Riese

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Mar 22, 2011
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Pure Poetry #28 : Dorothy Porter

You really need to know about Dorothy Porter. She was an Australian poet, an out…

Julia

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Mar 21, 2011
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Pure Poetry #27: Jeffrey McDaniel

“You must nurture the kiss. Turn out the lights. Notice how it illuminates the room.…

jul

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Mar 18, 2011
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Pure Poetry #26: Lee Harwood

“I like his poetry because it’s kind of all over the place without being noisy…

Mari

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Mar 17, 2011
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Pure Poetry #25: Notes on Rainer “Rilke” Maria Rilke

Did you know that Rilke’s Mom initially raised him as a girl? True story.

Riese

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Mar 16, 2011
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Pure Poetry #24: Charles Bukowski

I don’t want to write my essay, so here’s some Charles Bukowski poems.

Emily

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Mar 14, 2011
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Pure Poetry #23: NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows Sex is Pure Poetry

“Oh, to be ready for it, unf*cked, ever-f*cked.”

Riese

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Mar 13, 2011
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Pure Poetry #22: William Carlos Williams and Beyond

This is just a post (mostly) about old white men. But it’s happy. It’s Autostraddle…

Becky

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Mar 12, 2011
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Pure Poetry #20: Veronica Franco, the Courtesan

“Veronica Franco became an icon for women to leave the confines of the home and…

Queerie Bradshaw

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Mar 9, 2011
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Pure Poetry #19: Rock WILK is a F*cking Experience

“Rock’s voice was more powerful than my desire for a fresh beer.”

gabby

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Mar 9, 2011
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Pure Poetry #18: Raymond Carver Could Drink Ten Quarts of this Beer

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?

Riese

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Mar 8, 2011
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Pure Poetry #17: Adrienne Rich Came to Explore the Wreck

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.

taylor

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Mar 7, 2011
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Pure Poetry #16: Vanessa Hidary, The Hebrew Mamita

‘Should I fiddle on a f*cking roof for you?’

Lindsay Eanet

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Mar 7, 2011
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Pure Poetry #14: Sady Doyle on the Great Poet Diane Di Prima

“This woman found the riskiest, weirdest thing to be, at any particular moment, and then…

Sady Doyle

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Mar 7, 2011
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Pure Poetry #15: Pablo Neruda

“Cómo logró su libertad la bicicleta abandonada?”

Laura

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Mar 6, 2011
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Pure Poetry #13: Jack Spicer Breaks My Heart Into Small Pieces

“I think that anyone’s a fool to become a junkie or a poet… it’s the…

Riese

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Mar 4, 2011
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Pure Poetry #11: Saul Williams

“Admittedly, as a 21-year-old middle-class queer Asian woman, I probably do not share that many…

phoenix

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Mar 1, 2011
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Pure Poetry #10 : Michelle Tea

“hey now tall girl aren’t you bored all by yourself in your messy room”

Laneia

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Feb 28, 2011
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Pure Poetry #9: Shel Silverstein

(from Intern Lily & w/a 12-year-old boy who lives with Laneia) – “Silverstein writes what…

Lily

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Feb 28, 2011
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Pure Poetry #8: Louise Glück

It was the last line of the poem that was the most striking. ‘The love…

Lindsay Eanet

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Feb 27, 2011
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Pure Poetry #7: e.e cummings

“e.e cummings is also really hard to read aloud because of his weird use of…

Emily

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Feb 26, 2011
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Pure Poetry #6: Staceyann Chin

Chin’s writing covers a lot of topics- so I’m going to share excerpts of two…

Carmen

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Feb 25, 2011
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Pure Poetry #5: Leonard Cohen

“It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I realized that Leonard Cohen…

Crystal

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Feb 25, 2011
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Pure Poetry #4: Has Anyone Ever Heard of This ‘Andrea Gibson?’

So in order to include Andrea Gibson in this article, because we know you want…

phoenix

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Feb 24, 2011

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