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Danielle Pafunda
Danielle Pafunda is made of awesome. So classy and lovely is she that The Nepotist adjusts his habit of publishing up to three poems per poet just for her. These poems-- all four of them-- are...
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David Lehman
The Nepotist knows few poets who are as kind, as lively, as generous, or as committed to living a true life of letters as David Lehman is. There's something incredibly gladdening about this man. His...
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Jennifer Reeser
The following three poems by the poet Jennifer Reeser are so skillfully turned, so lusciously vivid and descriptive that The Nepotist trembles a bit to write of them lest Jennifer fail to find a...
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D. Antwan Stewart
How else to bear our sex as sarcophagus / for the body, D. Antwan Stewart asks. The following three poems feel very familiar to The Nepotist because he has found himself at various moments in his life...
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Lesley Wheeler
Words are always messy, Sundays are rotten, and love is not enough. This is what we learn from Lesley Wheeler's poem "Mysteries," a sly, lilting poem written in a tone that belies its thudding message...
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James Valvis
What's getting me with today's poem is the conversation it seems to be having with a poem The Nepotist previously published, Patrick Hicks'"The Evangelist of Hate." In Patrick's poem, the soldiers are...
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Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
I was at my father’s side when he died. It was the worst day of The Nepotist’s life. So traumatic was my father’s death, so noisy the machines that were trying and failing to keep him alive, so out of...
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Cody Todd
I like what Cody Todd's poems do with sound. Scroll immediately down to "Bosola" to see what I mean (looking for marrow and gristle. She died with her. / babies on a pedestal). But there are other...
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Joe Milford
The three following poems by Joe Milford are vast, sweeping, and self-sustaining. They move under power of their own feet, their own feats, even. These are the sort of poems that The Nepotist always...
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Amanda Auchter
I'm tempted to call these three poems by Amanda Auchter 'impressionistic.' For, in the way that an impressionist's painting gestures at an image with a wash of color here or an emphasis on natural...
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Andrew Shields
The Nepotist notes that he's often quick to celebrate a poem's loveliness, its beauty, its grace or even its pulchritude. But none of these adjectives, however, is particularly apt when describing the...
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Jennifer L. Knox
Days are, and the planets scuttle into a wickedly delicious, throbbing and delightful arrangement of auspicious alignment. Other days, they cannot manage even the idea of such a feat. Today I present...
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Bernadette Geyer
So The Nepotist has, as you may have noticed, taken a break from posting for almost the entire month of September. This is because The Nepotist, like many of his readers and poets, is a university...
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Nick Courtright
There are three human questions, correlated perfectly with past, present, and future: where did we come from, what is the meaning of life, and what happens after we die. As if grappling for a light...
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Heather Aimee O'Neill
When The Nepotist put out the anonymous call to his friends asking them to send along poems, he knew-- because of course his friends are amazing and talented-- that the poems he'd receive would impress...
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