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Night is Simply A Shadow

Greta Wrolstad (1981-2005) was a poet and vital presence in the M.F.A. program at The University of Montana, where she held a teaching assistantship in English and served as poetry co-editor of CutBank.  Greta was my student.  She was not only tremendously talented but at-home in herself, in ways that are utterly elusive to me.  [...]

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The Poetry Across The Pond

London, England May 19, 2013 Dear Friend, I’m sitting in the garden of an old house here in Notting Hill, reading an anthology of young British poets called Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK. It’s amazing how similar and how different the poetry of the United States and The UK [...]

Posted in Free Verse, Poetry

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On Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg

As I sit here at my desk in Northwest Portland, in a lime-green apartment full of skylights, sandwiched between Tin House Magazine and Tin House Books, reading the dynamic and very brave poems my grad students at Portland State are writing—I find myself thinking, in the most basic terms, about what it means to be [...]

Posted in Essays, Poetry

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The Killing Fields

Brandon Shimoda is the author of four books of poetry, including Portuguese (Tin House Book/Octopus), O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011), The Girl Without Arms (Black Ocean, 2011), and The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008)—among other solo and collaborative works in print, on cassette, online and on vinyl. He is currently co-editing, with poet Thom Donovan, a retrospective collection of writings by Lebanese-American poet Etel [...]

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Portuguese by Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda is the author of four books of poetry, including Portuguese (Tin House Book/Octopus), O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011), The Girl Without Arms (Black Ocean, 2011), and The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008)—among other solo and collaborative works in print, on cassette, online and on vinyl. He is currently co-editing, with poet Thom Donovan, a retrospective collection of writings by Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan [...]

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An Open Bar Round Up: The Poetic World

A selection of our favorite poetry related posts from 2012.

Posted in General, Poetry

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On The Ineptitude of Certain Hurricanes

From Issue 52, Cate Marvin

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Talk Nerdy To Me

From Issue 38, Matthew Dickman

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Half is Just Enough to Make Sure You Will Eat Another Someday

From Issue 41, Cat Richardson

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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One Touch in Seven Octaves

From Issue 27, Vera Pavlova

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Excuse Poem

From Issue 36, Oliver De La Paz

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Miracle Of The Black Leg

From Issue 47, Natasha Trethewey

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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All My Wives

From Issue 31, Cate Marvin

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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What If You’d Gone Anyway?

From Issue 39, Tracy K. Smith

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Pheromone

From Issue 9, Nick Flynn

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Minotaur

From Issue 34, Peter Kline

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Pride and Prejudice: The Game

From Issue 26, Maura Stanton

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Time Like a Fallen Horse

From Issue 27, Bei Ling

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Letters to a Shithead Friend

From Issue 38, Rebecca Lehman

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Your Horoscope

From Issue 33, Jane Avrich

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Minotaur, No Maze

From Issue 28, Matthea Harvey

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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The Universe Is a House Party

From Issue 39, Tracy K. Smith

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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Illustrated Guide to Familiar American Trees

From Issue 30, Charlie Smith

Posted in From The Vault, Poetry

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