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political poetry

July 22, 2009

Politics & Poetics – a repost

Sometimes when I experience a crisis of confidence, as I have lately (what am I doing? is it any good? what does it matter? & so on) I scroll back through this blog, just to see what I have been doing. Late last night I came across this post, from January 2008, which I had… Continue reading

poetry, Politics

artistic responsibility, feminism, gender, poetics, poetry, political poetry, Politics
January 15, 2008

Politics & Poetics

[UPDATED 8:00 PM 16 January: Wow. Andrew Sullivan just linked to the poem. My stats are booming!] My poems seldom incite controversy, but I Have This To Say About That, regarding why the New Hampshire pollsters got it wrong, has done exactly that, here and elsewhere. Comments and emails on this poem have reminded me… Continue reading

poetry, Politics

artistic responsibility, feminism, gender, poetics, poetry, political poetry, Politics, race

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In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

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A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

political poetry

Politics & Poetics – a repost

Politics & Poetics