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wintryblight · 3 years
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hi! do you have poems with the same idea/feel as this willa cather quote: "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."? I read a YA novel years ago that went something like "we might have grown apart, but it doesn't change the fact that for a while we grew together, and thus our roots will always be tangled" which has the same feel to me. any suggestions? thank you!
hi anon & thank you for your prompt! here are some poems that i think will resonate with you. enjoy reading!
Jennifer Grotz, “Staring into the Sun” | Only then did we know. How it felt / to have loved to the end, and then past the very end.
Ada Limón, "In A Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me" | You're the muscle / I cut from the bone and still the bone / remembers, still it wants (so much, it wants) / the flesh back
Jack Gilbert, “Kunstkammer” | Again and again we put our / sweet ghosts on small paper boats and sailed / them back into their death
Hanif Abdurraquib, “Ode to Elliott Smith, Ending in the First Snowfall of 2003” | & when they come for us & whatever is left of our broken bodies / tell them that we were always as lonely as we were
Sanna Wani, “Tomorrow is a Place” | There is a tenderness to growing older and we are listening for it.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, “The Sublime Before (Is Someone’s After)” | Summers, we bleach hair with / lemon, are warm as gold on skin, haven't / glimpsed the shapes we'll be hammered in.
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firstfullmoon · 3 years
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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, “The Sublime Before (Is Someone’s After)”
[text ID: Red-throated hummingbirds spar above / the magnolia. Upwind, something grilled. / The dogs are still alive, yap at whitetail in / the cornfield. The rooster hasn’t chased us / down the driveway, so no one got fed up, / loaded the shotgun. Father’s heart doesn’t / yet float on a pillow of fat. The miscarriage / is years off. Summers, we bleach hair with / lemon, are warm as gold on skin, haven’t / glimpsed the shapes we’ll be hammered in.]
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thelunchbox2013 · 2 years
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ngl this poem makes me cry
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The Sublime Before (Is Someone's After)
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Red-throated hummingbirds spar above
the magnolia. Upwind, something grilled.
The dogs are still alive, yap at whitetail in
the cornfield. The rooster hasn't chased us
down the driveway, so no one got fed up,
loaded the shotgun. Father's heart doesn't
yet float on a pillow of fat. The miscarriage
is years off. Summers, we bleach hair with
lemon, are warm as gold on skin, haven't
glimpsed the shapes we'll be hammered in.
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themissourireview · 2 years
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hi y’all! my name is bryn, and I’m a current intern now on tumblr here at The Missouri Review. I’m an MA candidate in the English Department at the University of Missouri, a poetry manuscripts and contest submission reader here at TMR, and in my free time, a creative nonfiction writer. I’m very excited to share all the fun reading and writing things related to our #literarymagazine, and I’m so happy to have you here.
  If you’re on our Instagram (follow us if you want to @/themissourireview ), you know this already, but we are halfway through a #NationalReadingMonth Challenge! Our editors, interns and myself have helped curate a list of throwbacks and recent work, and I decided to collect these all for you in one Master Post, sorted into some beautiful #fiction #essays and #poetry, with links of course. I’m so excited to hear your thoughts and have some lively literary conversations this semester while I’m here, and I’ll continue to share our latest choices for #NationalReadingMonth. 
  Without further ado!
#READWITHTMR Challenge
POEMS
1. “Off the Gulf” by Patricia Liu. This was a #poemoftheweek from this past December. Liu says, “This poem, in lieu of photographs, holds my memories of Sanibel: learning to swim after having forgotten, witnessing the beginnings of a thunderstorm, falling in love for the first and last time.” https://www.missourireview.com/off-the-gulf-by-patricia-liu/
2. “The Neighborhood Girls Catch Lordstown Syndrome” by Allison Pitinii Davis. The poem engages with place in evocative ways, likening the effects of when the factory moves out of a factory town to a contagion. https://www.missourireview.com/article/poems-allison-pitinii-davis/
3. “Self-Portrait at Divorce” by Tiana Clark. This poem uses concrete imagery to explore the way divorce can create liminal spaces. https://www.missourireview.com/article/4-poems-by-tiana-clark/
4. “On Grieving My Nexplanon After Its Removal” by Monica Prince. This poem was inspired by the period between when the poet had her IUD removed and underwent a tubal ligation—a time that served as a “chance to reevaluate [her] permanent decision.” https://www.missourireview.com/on-grieving-my-nexplanon-after-its-removal-monica-prince/
5. Carolina Hotchandani’s poem, “Possible Consolation of a Brain Scan’s Topography.” Described by the poet herself: “How can I capture the loneliness felt when a loved one is there but has forgotten the events and stories that comprise this loving relationship?” https://www.missourireview.com/possible-consolation-of-a-brain-scans-topography-carolina-hotchandani/
6. "Tea” by Leila Chatti. This is a poem many of our staff members return to often, much like the ritualistic tea drinking the poem’s speaker describes. https://www.missourireview.com/leila-chatti-tea/
7. "Indian Lake," a 2015 Poem of the Week by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett. Flynn-Goodlett said, "The seed of this poem was an incandescent memory of climbing out of a dark lake onto a dock lined in flares—the tension between the adult celebration and the child’s, to whom the holiday was about sparklers, berry-studded cakes, and deafening explosions. I’ve never thought of childhood as an idyll, but as a corral flanked by whispers; the adult darkness is forever seeping in, all the more menacing for being unspoken.” https://www.missourireview.com/luiza-flynn-goodlett-indian-lake/
ESSAYS
8. “Genesis” by Yael Hacohen. This nonfiction essay is a raw rendering of Hacohoen’s experiences as a woman soldier in the Israeli army. This essay enables the reader to fully inhabit the speaker, exposing the nuanced costs of challenging the “mechanisms of power.” https://www.missourireview.com/genesis-by-yael-hacohen/
9. “A Shapeless Thief" by Marin Sardy. Named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2015, here, Sardy explores how her mother’s schizophrenia influenced her life, characterizing the illness as a thief of normalcy. NPR called the memoir in which this essay appeared “beautifully prismatic.” We think that’s an apt description. https://www.missourireview.com/a-shapeless-thief-by-marin-sardy/
FICTION
10. “Triumph” by Sahar Mustafah. Set in a women’s clinic in contemporary Palestine, this short story explores issues of gender, power, and domestic violence. It appeared in TMR 43:2. https://www.missourireview.com/triumph-by-sahar-mustafa/
11. In “The Legend of Lonnie Lion,” a story from JM Holmes’ debut collection, How Are You Going to Save Yourself (2018), a son reflects on his fraught relationship with his father, a retired NFL defensive end. The story’s compelling voice and mythic quality really make it a standout piece. https://www.missourireview.com/jm-holmes-the-legend-of-lonnie-lion/
12. “Way Back, Well Before My Divorce.” Equally comedic and poignant, this story, the winner of our 2021 William Peden Prize in fiction, examines the many faces of naivete, from hopeful crowd members betting on a rigged shell game to a young man unknowingly crossing an invisible boundary with his girlfriend’s sister. https://www.missourireview.com/way-back-well-before-my-divorce/
13. “Intro to Nursing,” by Jessica Watson. In this BLAST piece (our series of short fictions online), Watson synthesizes reflection and confession to probe at the question of what it means to be a nurse. https://www.missourireview.com/intro-to-nursing-by-jessica-watson/
14. Tim Loc’s fiction piece, “If You’re so Smart.” “If You’re So Smart” serves as a reminder that homelessness “can’t be defined by any single narrative.” https://www.missourireview.com/if-youre-so-smart-by-tim-loc/
15. “An Alcoholic’s Guide to Peru and Chile” by Rick Bass is funny. It also grapples with difficult questions: What does it mean to be a good father? What happens when kids are asked to grow up too quickly? Read this #ReadwithTMR choice at: https://www.missourireview.com/v-i-prose-an-alcoholics-guide-to-peru-and-chile-by-rick-bass/
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neutrois · 4 years
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The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me, Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, Haymarket Books
Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Foglifter Press
The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume III, The Other Foundation, Jacana Media
Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, Arsenal Pulp Press
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, West Virginia University Press
Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AK Press
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Columbia University Press
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969, Noam Sienna, Print-O-Craft
Our book Nonbinary Memoirs is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards!!!!
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broadsidedpress · 3 years
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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s voice—queer and Southern—is rich and encompasses violence, tenderness, fury, as well as satire. With hilarious irony, when describing lesbian sex in “To Pence,” she boasts, “It works just as you imagine, / involves as much buffoonery.”
Read the full review by Risa Denenberg at Broadsides to Books.
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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.
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superstitionrev · 3 years
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Contributor Update, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Contributor Update, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Join us in congratulating past Superstition Review contributor Luiza Flynn-Goodlett on the release of her upcoming book, Look Alive. This poetry collection explores the development of the femme queer self and assesses queerness by placing the narrator at the brunt end of societal and personal violence. The book will take its readers through a journey of queer self-discovery that involves taking…
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wintryblight · 3 years
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do you have poems about grief/sorrow that aren't about a person's death? I've been desperately wishing I could go back in time, to a time that's long gone now, to people that are still alive but not home anymore, to a feeling, etc. no one died this time. somehow, that doesn't seem to matter. not sure I'm making any sense.
hi anon! i’m so sorry for taking a long time to get to your prompt--i’ve had a difficult time in my personal life & haven’t had much time to respond to requests. i love your prompt & the way you phrased it, & here are some poems that i hope resonate with you. enjoy reading!
Meghan O’Rourke, “Unforced Error” | Heidegger: “Every man is born as many men / and dies as a single one.” / The bones in us still marrowful. / The moon up there, too, an arctic sorrow.
Ada Limón, “Before” | If you live, / you look back and beg / for it again, the hazardous / bliss before you know / what you would miss.
Jeff Hardin, “Concerning the Shape of Time” | The truth is: here we are / inside these lives we sometimes do not / recognize, these lives we don’t deserve. / So many selves we almost came to be / never came to be.
Wendy Xu, “Writing Home” | These days / the lyric’s sentiment floats / away from me. Like a river someone / forgets to bless. Memory, to memory, / to the dirt path opening / again in a dream.
Li-Young Lee, “I Ask My Mother to Sing” | how the waterlilies fill with rain until / they overturn, spilling water into water, / then rock back, and fill with more.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, “The Sublime Before (Is Someone's After)” | Summers, we bleach hair with / lemon, are warm as gold on skin, haven't / glimpsed the shapes we'll be hammered in.
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wintryblight · 3 years
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sort poems by themes/authors
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themes
perseverance
nature
food
recovery/healing
the body
grief
death
pain/sickness
childhood
loneliness
nostalgia
freedom
relationships
queerness
lesbians
desire
depression
stagnation
perseverance
hope
love
lingering love
unloved
unrequited love
intense love
fear of love
doomed love
heartache
mothers
fathers
family
dysfunction
the mundane
rage
numbness
stagnation
monotony
paralysis
feeling too much
understanding and being understood
music
self-acceptance
self-compassion
self-reliance
forgiveness
the moon
space
rain
bodies of water
travel
writing
personal favourites
prose poetry
authors
Hanif Abdurraquib
Kim Addonizio
Anna Akhmatova
Rosa Alcalá
Elizabeth Alexander
Hala Alyan
Maya Angelou
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Derrick Austin
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Ellen Bass
April Bernard
Emily Berry
Wendell Berry
John Berryman
Elizabeth Bishop
Anne Boyer
William Brewer
Richard Brostoff
Jericho Brown
Anne Carson
Grace Cavalieri
K-Ming Chang
Jennifer Chang
Tina Chang
Victoria Chang
Hayan Charara
Chen Chen
Inger Christensen
Steven Chung
Christopher Citro
Lucille Clifton
Barbara Cooker
Wendy Cope
Conchitina Cruz
e. e. cummings
Marissa Davis
Meg Day
Lidija Dimkovska
Chelsea Dingman
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Russell Edson
T. S. Eliot
William Fargarson
Megan Fernandes
Nikky Finney
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Richard Foerster
Vievee Francis
Clifton Gachagua
Ross Gay
Andrea Gibson
Aracelis Girmay 
Jenn Givhan
Louise Glück
Rodney Gomez
Oscar Gonzalez
torrin a. greathouse  
Linda Gregg
Jennifer Grotz
Jeff Hardin
Joy Harjo
Robert Hass
Rage Hezekiah
Neil Hilborn
Bill Holm
Marie Howe
Cynthia Huntington
A. Van Jordan
June Jordan
Donald Justice
Anna Belle Kaufman
Sarah Kay
Donika Kelly
Patricia Kirkpatrick
Joanna Klink
Nate Klug
Yusef Komunyakaa
Juliet Kono
Fortesa Latifi
D. H. Lawrence
Li-Young Lee
Joseph O. Legaspi
Alex Lemon
Jan Heller Levi
Robin Coste Lewis
Sandra Lim
Ada Limón
Sarah Lindsay
Timothy Liu
Audre Lorde
Dorianne Laux
Sally Wen Mao
William Matthews
Nathan McClain
Marty McConnell
Sjohnna McCray
Dunya Mikhail
Jennifer Militello
Tatsuji Miyoshi
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Tomás Q. Morín  
Robin Morgan
Gina Myers
Maggie Nelson
Pablo Neruda
Hieu Minh Nguyen
Frank O’Hara
Sharon Olds
Akilah Oliver
Mary Oliver
Meghan O'Rourke
Alicia Ostriker
beyza ozer
Shin Yu Pai
Pat Parker
Don Paterson
Octavio Paz
Catherine Pierce
Jon Pineda
Sylvia Plath
Meghan Privitello
Aleida Rodríguez
Claudia Rankine
Paisley Rekdal
Susan Rich
Max Ritvo
Sara Daniele Rivera
Kait Rokowski
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Muriel Rukeyser  
Erika L. Sanchez
Sappho
Nicole Sealey
Anne Sexton
Richard Siken
Jared Singer
Scherezade Siobhan
Emily Skaja
Carmen Giménez Smith
Danez Smith
Maggie Smith
Tracy K. Smith
Anne Stevenson
Mark Strand
Truong Tran
Wang Ping
Sanna Wani
Valerie Wetlaufer
Walt Whitman
Michael Wasson
Keith S. Wilson
C. D. Wright
James Wright
Diego Valeri
Jeanann Verlee
Laura Villareal
Ocean Vuong
Jenny Xie
Wendy Xu
John Yau
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Adam Zagajewski
Felicia Zamora
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superstitionrev · 3 years
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Contributor Update, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Contributor Update, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley
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Join us in congratulating past Superstition Review contributor Luiza Flynn-Goodlett on the release of her upcoming book, Look Alive by Southeast Missouri Press and winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Prize. Luiza is an an award-winning author whose poems have been featured in several journals, including Triquarterly and North American Review. She has released six chapbooks, but Look Alive will be…
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superstitionrev · 8 years
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SR Pod/Vod Series, Authors Talk: Poet Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
SR Pod/Vod Series, Authors Talk: Poet Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Today we are pleased to feature poet Luiza Flynn-Goodlett as our twenty-ninth Authors Talkseries contributor. Luiza mentions how her poems – including the three poems in Issue 17 – are a way for her to interact with existing, dominant narrative. She realizes she changes as a person, and her poems exist in an eternal state of becoming. She goes into detail about each of the three poems in Issue 17.
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superstitionrev · 8 years
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SR Pod/Vod Series, Recording: Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
SR Pod/Vod Series, Recording: Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
This Tuesday, we are proud to feature a podcast of s[r] contributor Luiza Flynn-Goodlett reading her three poems from Issue 17.
You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes channel, podcast #218.
You can follow along with Luiza’s work in Superstition Review, Issue 17.
More About the Author:
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbook Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press). She received her…
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