I kind of hate it.” Or, “Oh you wait tables? I didn’t know that was something people did.” I say it can be invigorating because, on some level, we have to evaluate what we do and why we do it almost daily.
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I kind of hate it.” Or, “Oh you wait tables? I didn’t know that was something people did.” I say it can be invigorating because, on some level, we have to evaluate what we do and why we do it almost daily.
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You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together – all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It’s as if I’ve turned into summer itself.
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Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.
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The longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.
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Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days.
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Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional.
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We have to explain ourselves to people all the time. We have to say, “Yes, I am a unicorn, believe in me.”
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There’s so much rage in the world now and I’m finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
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I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
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Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter
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