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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Dream poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 1 month ago

Does anyone else have a hard time trying to convert dreams to poetry? I’ve been having some vivid and particularly strange dreams lately, the sort that feel as if they should provide good fuel for writing, but w […]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post A review of The Basketball Diaries in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 1 month ago

I recently picked up and read a copy of Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries. The book contains a series of journal entries Jim Carroll, a writer and musician involved in Andy Warhol’s factory scene, wrote fro […]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Why I don’t play an instrument in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 1 month ago

I don’t have many theories on life, nothing like Sick Boy’s unifying theory of life from Trainspotting, but I do have one personal philosophy on the arts that I’m a little proud of and like to spout at the hours […]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Poetry I don’t understand in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 2 months ago

The other day I was reading this Keat’s poem “The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream”, I was thoroughly enjoying it but also understanding none of it. The rather long piece was chock-full of mythological references I didn’ […]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Spring in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 2 months ago

I’ve been pretty happy with the weather change recently, I like the rainy, muddy, first weeks of Spring, where it feels as if Winter can be seen retreating. It’s no longer freezing and not yet sweltering, and wal […]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Happy poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 2 months ago

When thinking of poets I tend to think of rather anxious, wallflower prone people. For the most part this is probably based around my own experiences and those represented on TV. Before I actually wrote poetry I […]
Henry Levin edited the blog post Literary rush in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 3 months ago

What I like to call “the literary rush” is sometimes the sensation I base my existence around. I kind of use this phrase in a half joking, hyperbolic manner, because I’m sure when I say it to friends it brings to mind an image of someone snorting lines of poetry (I feel a little clever for writing that, but I’m near positive it’s been writ…[Read more]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Seamus Heaney’s Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 3 months ago

Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems 1988-2013 commits itself to finding ornate detail in things commonly considered simple. While lots of poems translate something complicated into more easily digestible terms, H […]
Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Not all that Wilde in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 3 months ago

In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the corrupting Lord Henry Wotton states that he enjoys the company of second rate artists over good artists. According to him good artists tend to lead boring lives, l […]
Henry Levin edited the blog post The Subpar Sublime in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 3 months ago

Lately I’ve been a little fixated on the idea of “The Sublime”, terror equally intertwined with beauty. This idea seems to keep popping up in various classes and conversations, in art history class we examine its presence in paintings of shipwrecks and ominous churches, and while doing work in English class I happened upon it in a book of li…[Read more]

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