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How To Become An Effective Poet In 30 Days, Or Less
First, slick back your hair with gasoline and slip an unlit cigarette between your pouting lips. Now, casually toy with the lighter. Remember: you are…
Aug 8, 2022
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Michael Bazzett
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Other Names for Fire
Kiss-me-not. He who grows hungrier the more he’s fed. Sunlight released from the prison of the tree. Rust on meth. Creature made of tongue and wing…
Aug 7, 2022
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The Crafty Craftiness of UnCraft
There is a reason why writers like the word “craft.” They evoke it as a kind of one-word incantation, a defense against chaos: the visionary…
Aug 6, 2022
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April 2022
Revisiting Myth: Of Mirrors, Shields, and Zombies
Given the media circles I inhabit as a poet and a translator, I probably hear some version of the assertion—"We need new myths"—on a seasonal basis. As…
Apr 9, 2022
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January 2022
When the End of the Year Arrived...
…they were relieved. Their lives had been placed, somehow, on the dashboard of a small car, his and hers, side-by-side, tossed on the dash like a pack…
Jan 1, 2022
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May 2021
It’s Not You, It’s Me
said Narcissus to everyone all of the time.
May 18, 2021
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what's underneath the words
Welcome to The Unspoken Jokebook by me, Michael Bazzett. Goat herder. Happy poet. \nThe ECHO CHAMBER,\ncoming soon from\nMilkweed Editions…
May 18, 2021
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