“To Kent Johnson, After the Georgia Recount as I Wait for the Poinsettia to Turn Red Again,” by Johnny Payne
Image by Li Sixun (李思訓, 651-716), a Chinese painter who was later seen as the chief exponent of a...
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Category: Poetry
Eliot Katz on Kent Johnson
“Poets Eyeing America,” A Collage by Eliot Katz I wanted to send in a contribution to your...
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“Anti-Trump Poems,” by Eliot Katz
“Another World Is Possible,” Global Justice movement rally. Photo by Eliot Katz Would...
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“The Kent Johnson Dossier: Because of Poetry, I Have a Really Big House,” by Theresa Smalec
Cover image by visual poet Mike Basinski, longtime director (now retired) of the Buffalo Poetry...
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“ONE OF THE GREATEST POETS I’VE NEVER MET: Kent Johnson’s Big House,” by Patrick James Dunagan
“It was complicated digging the tunnels under the Poetry Foundation.” So opens “The...
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Three Poems by Joe Safdie
Prophecy In the future humanity will be optional, not available in all areas. Most of us will be...
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“the theme music for HBO’s Succession,” by Joe Safdie
the theme music for HBO’s Succession has “cemented its status in sonic TV history” according to an...
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“Elegy,” by Wade Bell
Elegy My mother sobbing Her sisters older younger sobbing Edmonton deep winter 1944 what I...
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“Aged Candidates,” by Stephen Brockwell
Aged Candidates Some countries have elected nursing mothers Some countries have elected fathers...
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“Troy Too,” by Karen Malpede
Image © by Biba Kayewich Troy Too ©By Karen Malpede (Euripides insisted on giving voice to the...
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“Edmonton,” by Robert Hogg
Image of Westmount School provided by Robert Hogg Edmonton Walk beside me a moment and I’ll tell...
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Three Poems from “Broken Glosa,” by Stephen Bett
“Crossing Lions Gate Bridge” by daveynin is licensed under CC BY 2.0 ...
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“Romerica, the Battered One,” by Chad Norman
for Jay Hamburger She. Her. A nation is not a woman… not even close. But in all those...
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“12 Rules For Life (For Insecure White Boys),” by Michael Boughn
Image: “Screws Do Not Need to be Tightened Further,” by Michael Boughn Keep...
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“Visions of Bolaño,” by Wade Bell
It probably was not him. On the slow, local train returning to my Catalan village after a weekend...
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Thank You, Contributors and Readers: Robert Kroetsch 2020 and Please Support the Typescript via Patreon
Original photo and copyright by Dennis Cooley. Retouched by Matthew Friedman Thank you to...
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“The Zionist Girl,” by Matitiyahu Ben-Yosef
The Zionist girl sat legs crossed waiting for a blood test at the campus infirmary and talked...
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“Timed (for Robert Kroetsch)” by Aritha van Herk
Photo by Lynette Loeppky Timed (for Robert Kroetsch) He left behind not objects but place...
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“Blood Culture,” by Leonard Cohen and Judith Fitzgerald
In Memoriam Robert Kroetsch (26, June 1927 – 21 June 2011). Night comes quietly when you...
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“Between” and “Being Me,” by Robert Hogg
“Looking at you looking at me” by Mikusagi is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 ...
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