Poetry Daily is reporting that John Ashberry is taking it back. "It was just a joke I started and could never get out from under it. My poems are absolutely meaningless. They're just a collage of magazine articles I've read and stitched together with Elmer's Glue. From this day onwards I am writing sonnets in meter and rhyme with meaning and rhetorical sense. I apologize to all in the avant garde. There is no damned avant. There is no damned garde. There's just this week's copy of Vanity Fair."
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april fools
SPRING AND DEPTH IN HOKKU
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And again — spring. Yes, by the old hokku and agricultural calendars, today
spring has begun. We have reached Candlemas — or by its more ancient name,
Imbo...
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