Comments on: Moves in Contemporary Poetry

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

[...] Mike Young: Moves in Contemporary Poetry [...]

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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 [...]

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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)

By: postitbreakup

postitbreakup — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:35:00 +0000

saw this linked today in adam robinson’s post. this is phenomenal and i wish i’d had it when i was doing my poetry workshop. wow.

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Barrelhouse Online Workshops | HTMLGIANT — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:50:19 +0000

[...] one now. Don’t nobody know no poetry like Mike, neither — so if you want more than THIS AMAZING LIST of “moves in contemporary poetry”, you should consider giving his online class a look. The 8-week sessions starts on October [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:22:00 +0000

You do not need to be embarrassed about using any of these techniques, if you use them to good effect. And you might even feel a bit of pride, if you concocted them on your own, without knowingly cribbing from a model.

By: pams planet

pams planet — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:16:00 +0000

I love this! It is very interesting and bits and pieces of the most tantalizing poems. Good for me to learn so much more about the poetry!

By: Andrew M Gorin

Andrew M Gorin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:30:00 +0000

OKOK.

this is pretty interesting, tho bound to make a poet feel truly petty when making one of these “moves.” Then again, assuming that some of these techniques and the people who use them bear some kind of organic relation to the world in which they are produced, authenticity (in damaged the way it is possible now) may still be available to those of us not entirely full of shit. Maybe it would be even more interesting to think about these relationships?