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Sheetghost Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

What's haunting underneath the poems? Weekly prompts and short essays on poetry

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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Repetition as Perseveration

Moses and The Burning Bush, Keith Haring, 1985, acrylic on canvas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

I once had a poetry professor who hated multiple figurations for the same thing. If a poem compared, say, a lover’s hair to silk thre...

9 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Drawing Parallels, Not Allegories

Georges Seurat, The Gardener, 1882, oil on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art

This week I re-read, for the first time in a few years, Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris for the Brooklyn Poets manuscript class I’m teaching. I remembered it as a tig...

16 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Inferences as Subject

Édouard Manet, Writer George Moore at the Café, oil on canvas (1879), Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mourid Barghouti, the late Palestinian poet who spent much of his life exiled from one home country and the next, preferred concrete to abstra...

23 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Serial Memory

from Édouard Manet, Lady with Parrot, 1866, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It’s August again, and here in Virginia the bugs have been sawing while the grass has been browning. I’ve been going barefoot for days on end and feel a...

a month ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: The Poem As Character in the Poem

Fairfield Porter, Jimmy and John (James Schuyler and John Ashbery), oil on canvas, 1957-1958

Tuesday is the 99th birthday of John Ashbery, who died in 2017 but until then was regarded for decades, at least in American literature, as the “m...

a month ago
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    Poet from Virginia. Yale Younger Poets Prize & Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Poems in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation etc. I teach poetry at Juilliard, Bennington, Brooklyn Poets & Poets House.

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