Tag: Poetry

Portrait Gallery: The Class of 2024 / Joel Savishinsky

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Joel’s poem is one of three winning poems from 3rd Wednesday’s annual poetry contest. Contest judge, Marilyn L. Taylor said: “Here the concept of human mortality is explored in vivid, human terms, using the poet’s own recollections of friends, acquaintances, and miscellaneous others who may have pre-deceased him, but who somehow do not die. Against the background of his “private necropolis”, the speaker comes to a breathtaking — and genuinely disturbing — conclusion. Extremely well conceived and well expressed.”

Landscape with Knife and Crows / Ceridwen Hall

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Of this winning poem from 3rd Wednesday’s annual poetry contest, Judge Marilyn L. Taylor said:
“This very visual, beautifully written short poem could be read as a crash course in what scholars call “philosophical biology.” Any attempt to paraphrase it would do it zero justice, but my takeaway is that the poem suggests– (in only nine lines, crisscrossed with stark aviary imagery)– the difficulty of existing simultaneously as an organism and a mathematical concept. I find it an exceedingly thought-provoking meditation on the nature of reality.”