Category:Poetry

The Human Condition and 7 Other Poems

From “Writing Poetry 2,” with Pat Pattison

Poetry
We wrote six poems this semester, four in fixed form and two in Free Verse. We spend a good deal of energy in class workshopping each poem, with students often marveling at some aspect of a classmate’s poem, perhaps making…

2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Carl Phillips: Two New Poems, exclusive to FUSION

Guest Artists Poetry
Buried Treasure I used to think of tenderness as a kind of spindle we could both, each differently, revolve around   together. Likewise, until not so long ago, I still believed that keeping a lamp on at night could keep away   all ghosts, when really it only works for some ghosts, not the worst ones,   for whom it’s all the same – darkness, illumination… When I spoke   of vanishing, I meant without a whiff of retreat anywhere, no knocked-over winecup with its chipped ...

“The Autobiography of Frogs” and Other Poems

Duy Đoàn, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for We Play a Game

Poetry
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — First Kiss Scene   Interior – Black and white. The VAMPIRE’s bedroom – Night   POSTERS cover the walls: Michael Jackson Thriller cover, Madonna Madonna cover, lots of other posters. There’s a BED in the background, a DISCO BALL hanging from the middle of the room, a RECORD PLAYER against the right wall. It’s Halloween.   ARASH, dressed as a vampire, is lying face-up on the vampire’s bed. He’s on the comedown from E. The vampire is facing away from him, standing in front of the record player. She puts a record on. He’s lying still. She starts the record…   0:14 – “Death” by White Lies is the song.   0:37 – Arash stirs.   0:48 – Lyrics start / "I love the feeling when we"   0:50 – "lift off" ...

Modernist Poems

from “Liberating Aesthetics” course, Wayne Wild

Poetry
(The following poems were composed utilizing the Modernist aesthetic as represented primarily by T.S. Eliot, among which are included any one or more of following: “Feeling” through words, phrase, and images; fragmentation and juxtaposition; stream of consciousness; irony and self-mockery;…

Post-Modernist Poems

from “Liberating Aesthetics” course, Wayne Wild

Poetry
(The following poems were composed utilizing the Post-Modernist aesthetic as represented primarily by William Carlos Williams, and aimed for some of these elements: immediacy, alertness, speed, western dialect, poem as object on the page, poet as presence –seeing through the…

“Scenes from a Morning” and Other Poems

Poetry
We wrote six poems this semester, four in fixed form and two in Free Verse. We spend a good deal of energy workshopping each poem, with students often marveling at some aspect of a poem, perhaps making suggestions for edits…

The Quiet: 9 Poems

Reba May

Poetry
The Fox I saw the fox, red as brick, sleeping under the evergreen tree When the snow was falling in the front yard, it had darted across the street, aglow with the yellow hum of lampposts In the quiet of…

The Breaking Pointe

Faith Alhadeff

Poetry
The art of dance is the most Intricate of them all. It reveals truths we never Planned on facing. Blistering feet, Hidden by a smooth silk shoe. A simple leisure; Turned to restraint. Judging eyes daggering Her painted on smile. Stage lights beating down Upon her skin. Her body racing to keep up With her mind. She is the most vulnerable Of artists. Two tiny wooden boxes; Holding the weight of years Of struggle. Beautiful lace leotards ...

Berklee Slam Poetry Fire

featuring the poetic stylings of the Spoken Word and Slam Poetry classes, Professor Michael Heyman, chief stylist

Poetry