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Mon, 21 May 2012 12:02:26 +0000

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Three from HTMLGIANT « Editions Of You — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:39:10 +0000

[...] “Moves in Contemporary Poetry” by Mike Young (and Elisa Gabbert) [...]

By: Mike Young

Mike Young — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:48:00 +0000

thanks should also go to Elisa Gabbert, my co-curator here!

i like star trek TNG too, aintrent, but i think you’re completely bogus in your snide interpretation of the list

this talk has been talked to death, so i’ll just point you back out to the googlewebs for discussion about this list, but i’d like to also specifically mention Elisa’s longer essay treatment in the wonderful book The Monkey & The Wrench

and here’s what i wrote 2 years ago on some of what i took to be the most bewildering/petty/insecure takes on the list’s intentions/ideologies: http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com/2010/02/awesome-is-color-of-my-true-loves-eyes.html

i mean i guess i could’ve responded to any of the snider comments in this comment stream of this post over the years, but here two years later your comment takes another crack at a pretty cliched critique, so why not update the “shield system” or whatever it is worf always worfed about, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:45:00 +0000

@jean luc picard: I will go where you lead, captain! This is a rather nice collection, so thanks to Mike Young the collector. But yea, these “moves” do but elicit from me a sigh. Let’s call it “How University-Sponsored Poets Write Without Matter, Talent, or Inspiration.” Sending urgent open communication on all subspace frequencies. Please respond, any Federation vessel…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:42:00 +0000

@jean luc picard: It’s good to see you with us, captain. I will go where you lead! This is a nice collection, so thanks to Mike Young the collector – but yea, these “moves” but do elicit from me a sigh. Let’s call it: How university-sponsored poets write without matter or inspiration! Sending urgent open message on all subspace frequencies – please respond, any Federation vessel…

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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:56:42 +0000

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Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000

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By: Matthew Hittinger

Matthew Hittinger — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:46:53 +0000

[...] came across this fun article at HTMLGIANT cataloging the moves we contemporary poets like to make in our work. “This Is [...]

By: She's my everything went wrong | Bark: A Blog of Literature, Culture, and Art

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:10:04 +0000

[...] this wait, what? reframing of an utterance is a common move in contemporary poetry. From Mike Young’s research on poet moves: from “Running Away Jam” by Jason Bredle, “I [...]

By: zeugma

zeugma — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:04:00 +0000

protip: that instance os polysemy (#38) is a zeugma (my favorite figure of speech)