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ENG310: Mini Anthology One

Each week in ENGL 310: Advanced Poetry Writing at Monmouth College,  writers choose a poems from different kinds of sources. For the first week, they chose one of a dozen or so recent issues of Poetry, contributing a single poem to the class anthology. The discussions of the poems and poets--their subjects, voices, craft--weave into and out of the students writers’ own work. I’m learning about new poets and and new poems already. Next week: individual poems from recently published collections.  

Week One: Mini Anthology from recent issues of Poetry Magazine

Miranda: Once I Had an Acceptance Speech by Anthony Anaxagorou

Teri: My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work by Tiana Clark

Connor:  !katya! by Chrissy Williams

Gunnar: Bear by Reginald Gibbons

Morgan: Aubade Beginning in Handcuffs by torrin a. greathouse

Lexis: IInfinity Ghazal Beginning with Lice and Never Ending with Lies by Tarfiah Faizullah

Owen: Nostalgia by Chase Berggrun

Serena: Runaway by Jorie Graham

Shweta: Krishna by Meena Alexander

Nathan: Let’s Make the Water Turn Black by Sandra Simonds

Kenzie: Dictionary of Owl by Mary Meriam

Jacob: Black Notes on Genre for My Beloved by Rukmini Bhaya Nair

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Self-Portrait as Artemis

It wasn’t long before I rose into the silk of my night-robes and swilled the stars and the beetles back into sweetness—even my fingernails carry my likeness, and I smudge the marrow of myself into light. I whisper street- car, ardor, midnight into the ears of the soldier so he will forget everything but the eyes of the night nurse whose hair shines beneath the prow of her white cap. In the end, it is me he shipwrecks. O arrow. My arms knot as I pluck the lone string tauter. O crossbow. I kneel. He oozes, and the grasses and red wasp knock him back from my sight. The night braids my hair. I do not dream. I do not glow. ***Tarfia Faizullah, "Self-Portrait as Artemis," 2015.