Unsettle
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Tell me we’ll never get used to it. Richard Siken, 2005 The boy didn’t know what to do with sounds that entered his head and became something else. His parents would soon be caught in the glare of their weekly murder mystery, its theme a barrage of horns lingering too long on the tonic, the… More
Star-Taker
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She’s on her way to my grandmother’s apartment door and listens to the elevator make that little breathing sound, that unsteady inhalation, as it travels from her penthouse at 10 Gracie Square to our 8th floor. I can almost hear her remembering my paternal grandmother, the woman she’s thought of as Esther from when she… More
Imaging Figures #7: Actionable Bodies
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The wolf is entitled to the lamb. The Mountain Wreath (1847) You would not believe how many words there are for home and what savage music there can be wrung from it. Edna O’Brien (2015) For months now, I’ve seemed to live in a crowd of stories. The second epigraph to Edna O’Brien’s recent novel,… More
What Sports Taught Me About Writing
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Author John McCaffrey explains how a round of golf altered his approach to writing and publishing. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 29
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Indrani Sengupta’s poem “Somniloquy” is the final installment of Fogged Clarity’s Lyric Dream Project More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 28
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Benjamin Evans dream poem in imitation of Larry Levis is the 28th entry in The Lyric Dream Project. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 27
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Poet Daniel DeVaughn’s gorgeous dream poem about memory and violence is the 27th installment of our Lyric Dream Project. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 26
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Poet Matthew Hittinger’s sequence of dream poems centered around Marilyn Monroe make up the 26th installment of our Lyric Dream Project. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 25
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Ellen Scheuermann dreams she is a thief on the lam with her lover…the two ultimately transport to a teenage girls’ slumber party high above New York. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 24
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Poet Michael V. Smith dreams of DJ-ing in an all night grocery store. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 23
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Poet Michelle Peñaloza dreams an amalgam of a man made up of a lover, her father, and Tom Cruise More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 22
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An unknown subject dreams of a radiant love in a house decorated with flowers. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 21
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Dream 21 is an audio recording of a subject recounting their dream. All accompanying music was composed by Michael McDermit. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 20
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Poet Kelly Dwyer dreams of bears swimming in a fish-less bay and re-figures the color of flesh. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 19
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Daniel Anderson’s dream poem examines the nature of certainty and the origins of disappointment. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 18
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Sam Neis dreams a son and a harrowing scene with his imagined mother in this 18th installment of Fogged Clarity’s Lyric Dream Project. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 17
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Michael Tyrell dreams of secrets too useful to burn in this dream poem–the 17th installment in our Lyric Dream Project. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 16
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Michael Tyrell’s first of two dream poems explores train stations, a burning house, and posters of the missing. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 15
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Ethan Milner dreams of a love profound in this 15th installment of The Lyric Dream Project. More
The Lyric Dream Project: Dream 14
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Author Dylan Brock dreamt the devil called to him, the following is what ensued. More