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Abby Barrett edited the blog post First Song to Break My Heart in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 9 months ago

Ah, my friends…and I am back to writing about songs.

Aren’t songs the wellspring of poetry?

Or is poetry the origin of song?

In any case, the lyrical has always had the striking ability to create and […]
Abby Barrett wrote a new blog post a silly story about my boyfriend, and a Robert Hass pome in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago

My partner Noah is both a lover of as well as constructive critic of my work, and for this I appreciate him a lot. He’s not afraid to say this is really good and I don’t understand this in the same breath, and […]
Abby Barrett edited the blog post “Ramona” by Guster: a desire for intimacy in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago

In middle school and high school, my two self-proclaimed favorite bands were Guster and CAKE. I didn’t know why I appreciated these bands, exactly, but along with the “alternative” likes of Coldplay, Death Cab for […]
Abby Barrett wrote a new blog post A note on “Law” in Through in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago

David Herd’s Through is not only a well-written, cohesive collection of poems; it’s a story about how syntax, about “who leaves the language” (11), about appellants who are “rarely white” (12), who are “spirited […]
Abby Barrett edited the blog post Metaphysics in Kai Carlson-Wee’s “Steampipe” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months ago

Carlson-Wee places the poem “Steampipe” within section II (of V) of his collection RAIL. In reading RAIL, I immediately identified section II as a bounded network of poems connected deeply by violence. In “S […]
Abby Barrett edited the blog post Brevity, pt. II in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months ago

Last week in my blog post, I made a statement that I feel I should clarify rather than leaving it decontextualized on the page:

“There is nothing stopping every single poet in the world from simultaneously […]
Abby Barrett edited the blog post On Brevity in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months ago

There is nothing stopping every single poet in the world from simultaneously summarizing their future work into much smaller segments, except perhaps for the fact that detail is required in most cases to make the […]
Abby Barrett edited the blog post Jennifer Givhan’s “I am dark, I am forest” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 12 months ago

This summer I purchased and read the poetry collection Girl with Death Mask by author Jennifer Givhan. Givhan is a talented Mexican-American poet who often writes from her raw experiences about culture, i […]
Abby Barrett edited the blog post A Review of Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses; In particular, “This book can’t be sung” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years ago

Reading through Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses reminds me of the fond times I’ve spent at art museums with my boyfriend. This fondness has a hard edge, however, because this activity always feels to me like it w […]
Abby Barrett wrote a new blog post Epilogue: Personal Notes to My Fellow Poets in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 months ago

Of course I am aware that this blog is on a public domain, but more importantly, I know that the members of Lytton’s Spring 2018 poetry class read it. And I wanted to recognize the incredible work we all have done […]

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