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Scarriet · 1d ago

HEATHER MCHUGH AND KAY RYAN IN SWEET 16 DUEL IN THE WEST

Kay Ryan—looking for the final spot in Sweet 16 Heather McHugh, who defeated Rae Armantrout in the first round, has two poems in Rita Dove’s anthology and we were happy to discover this one: WHAT HE THOUGHT We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of [.

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Scarriet · 2d ago

MARILYN CHIN v. GARY SNYDER: WE ALMOST HAVE OUR SWEET 16…

The poet Gary Sndyer—and mountains. Marilyn Chin has three poems in Rita Dove’s new Penguin anthology and she defeated one of the Dickman twins (Michael) to get here. She tries to knock off Gary Snyder with a late night mood piece from the Dove book: COMPOSED NEAR THE BAY BRIDGE (after a wild part

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Scarriet · 3d ago

CROWDED PROSE: SHARON OLDS AND GARY SOTO IN A SWEET 16 BATTLE

Sharon Olds: the frankest poet ever? Rita Dove gave Sharon Olds two poems in her anthology: Olds is easy to anthologize: pick an Olds poem and you’ve got Olds. Some of the poets in Dove’s book feel poorly represented, but Olds’ two poems are her. Olds’ first poem beat Li-Young Lee in a close conte

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Scarriet · 5d ago

ROBERT HASS V. MATTHEW DICKMAN FOR SWEET 16 IN THE WEST

Robert Hass has a few poems in Dove’s anthology and the following poem, with its provocative title, makes mysterious references in a strange, zen-like calm. Hass plays the Wise Man in his poems of ‘third generation Modernist difficulty’ drifting over a California landscape. He’s easy with sex, str

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Scarriet · 6d ago

FORGET (ORIGNAL POEM BY THE SCARRIET EDITORS)

I see the word, forget, everywhere I look: The label of the bottle, the title of the book. The wine I drink is called forget. The people gone, we find our pet, And all of life is to forget. The sun is here but the sun must set; I’d describe our sun, but I forget. Think of the love [...]

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Scarriet · 1W ago

NBA FILES SUIT AGAINST SCARRIET FOR MARCH APRIL MAY MADNESS COMPETITION

Are those poetry prizes? NBA Comish: “Scarriet is luring away our viewers during the NBA Playoffs – instead of watching LeBron choke at the free-throw line, they’re online parsing poems from the Dove anthology.” Athletes worry their salaries will drop as fans abandon sports for poetry. It began with

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Scarriet · 1W ago

THE BALLAD OF THE YOUNG MAN, A NEW SCARRIET POEM

Having courted sleep, to watch her go away, She came to him unasked in the middle of the day. “Why were you unkind in the channels of the night When I longed to sail along beneath your dreams so bright?” “Why were you not there when everything was still, Save the scratching of the wind by the window

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Scarriet · 1W ago

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER V. M.S. MERWIN

Merwin hunts for Sweet 16 in the Scarriet March Madness 2012 Tournament M.S. Merwin ousted Kevin Young in a close match and Elizabeth Alexander narrowly defeated Carl Phillips. Both now go head-to-head for the final Sweet 16 spot in the Midwest/South. Alexander is well-represented in Dove’s antholo

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Scarriet · 1W ago

TOPIC-ISM: RITA DOVE V. TERRANCE HAYES

Terrance Hayes: fighting to stay in the Tourney against Penguin Anthology editor, Dove Poetry can now be about anything, and poetry can now be prose: this is what the ‘modern’ revolution in poetry wrought. If you can’t write good prose, maybe you can line-break your prose into what might pass as goo

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Scarriet · 2W ago

ANOTHER ORIGINAL POEM FROM SCARRIET

SOLEMN-THOUGHTED LOVE Solemn-thoughted love prepares For a long love; she stares Into the widening ring Of spinning spring And sees winter cares, So deep and serious is she. From the rocky brook she sees The flight, beneath the boughs, of the bees And learns their route— Circuitious as a tune for a

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