Thank you for this memorial, Lucy. I've been returning in my mind to the passions/poses of my own time in MFAland (2007-9) and remembering with gratitude how it felt to be part of a chatty argumentative active community of readers and listeners. I wanna read a periodization of that era against the poetic moments that came before and after; what I recall in retrospect was that it really mattered (in workshops, over drinks, after readings) where you fell on the axis of Jorie Graham to James Tate: like, were you a broody lyric poet scuffing the surface of your reflection with Languagey moves, or were you a comic-creepy gigantist waving your arms at the nightmarish sublime? --Grateful too for the then-contemporary poets who've kept a hold on my heart; been re-reading Kate Greenstreet, Saskia Hamilton's first book, Blueberry Morningsnow. I didn't know Mel Nichols' writing but just ordered her book.
omg, I was reading Silliman's Blog obsessively at the same time too! Never made it to DC, tho
OMG…WHAT A TIME (we’re old as hell)!
Thank you for this memorial, Lucy. I've been returning in my mind to the passions/poses of my own time in MFAland (2007-9) and remembering with gratitude how it felt to be part of a chatty argumentative active community of readers and listeners. I wanna read a periodization of that era against the poetic moments that came before and after; what I recall in retrospect was that it really mattered (in workshops, over drinks, after readings) where you fell on the axis of Jorie Graham to James Tate: like, were you a broody lyric poet scuffing the surface of your reflection with Languagey moves, or were you a comic-creepy gigantist waving your arms at the nightmarish sublime? --Grateful too for the then-contemporary poets who've kept a hold on my heart; been re-reading Kate Greenstreet, Saskia Hamilton's first book, Blueberry Morningsnow. I didn't know Mel Nichols' writing but just ordered her book.
i love the Day Poem you quoted.