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POET INTERVIEW: Miller Williams

By: Jackson Meazle
Miller Williams, the Arkansas poet, is in fantastic but scant company. Arkansas is better known for its blues, country, and jazz artists. But almost anyone who reads Williams’s poems will realize that they can also be sung. Are song lyrics really poems set to music? Williams’s poems are poems, and the music comes through with reading, aloud or in one's head.
Department: Interviews
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POETRY REVIEW: Sandra Meek

By: William Wright
It’s resisting gravity that wears, the hill going down—weighted with rain, her upturned hands pools erosion, a ladle dipping away cream. The body is equal measures milk and stone, a small room divided by string. The sky’s acid what tongues her face to blur.
Department: Reviews
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POETRY REVIEW: Clifford Bernier

By: John Gosslee

Poet Clifford Bernier’s first book won the Gival Press Poetry Award, landing $1,000 in his pocket. The idea for the musical parts of The Silent Art came to Bernier while he was sitting on stage after a weekly open mic he hosted that featured a lot of improvisational music: his book is the jazz-music experience in poetry.

Department: Reviews
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ISSUE 34: Poetry

From The OA Archive: Driving the Russians to the Hank Williams Museum by Jack Stewart.

Department: Vault
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