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  • 1 week ago | poets.org | Kaveh Akbar |Diane Seuss |Wayne Miller |Max Ritvo

    Find and share the perfect poems. There is a tumor in my sacroiliac joint  and snowflakes in my coffee. I’m in Iowa with the cats and you’re in Pompeii. You send a video: lizards rushing into limestone which remind you of being a kid in Florida. In Florida we memorized sonnets while leaping around green anoles. I’ve forgotten the poems. Your black tights, even in that heat. Mostly that’s what I remember. It’s okay to say it straight.

  • Oct 20, 2024 | letraslibres.com | Diane Seuss

  • Sep 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | Diane Seuss

    of dying, from hemlock unbeknownstto me in my garden. Unbeknownst, I picked a prettyhemlock bouquet,mistaking it for wildcarrot, inhalingenough of its noxious powdersto drop a donkey but not a god,and not a philosopher,who must drink it as a potion from a cup. A poet? Who knows. Who can claim to be a poet? My Socrates told me to nevermake that claim, it paints you as a hotdog, a peabrain. Nonetheless,I sickened from the bouquet,my legs heavy, my lungs flimsy and sad.

  • May 27, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Diane Seuss

    . Mar. 2024. 112p. ISBN 9781644452752. $26. POETRY COPY ISBN In her follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning frank: sonnets, Seuss assesses the nature and value of poetry by purveying beautifully hard-edged plainspokenness to capture aspects of her life. She recalls her upbringing in a “desolate town,” her working-class background (“My class.

  • May 22, 2024 | harpers.org | Diane Seuss

    From a manuscript in progress. The best I can do is to be concrete,by which I mean cementedin place. Bywhich I mean beingthe mean witchI concretely have become. A pointy blackfactual hat. A nonfictional wand. My husky boyfeet cemented into the concreteveranda. A veranda I call a verandabecause it is not a veranda. Read me my Miranda rights on that one;it’s a class thing. Like calling a soda cracker a Tombstonepizza.

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