While I found the new magazine too full of ads - sort of pretending to be a glossy fashion mag - I was glad to find a hidden treasure.
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Re: Jake Adam's "Abide."
Fickle, frail, memory, even of the beloved, may fail the constancy test,
momentarily; it is sure to return, as "Abide" shows. Movingly elegiac, with soft images of fading light, evening, and fall, all in unison with the speaker's mood, Jake Adam's "Abide" is a joyfully poignant poetic experience to read, over and over, again.
Good selection by Natasha Trethewey.
Poetry in the Sunday NYTimes' Magazine?
Something to write to Apollo about!
Fickle, frail, memory, even of the beloved, may fail the constancy test,
momentarily; it is sure to return, as "Abide" shows. Movingly elegiac, with soft images of fading light, evening, and fall, all in unison with the speaker's mood, Jake Adam's "Abide" is a joyfully poignant poetic experience to read, over and over, again.
Good selection by Natasha Trethewey.
Poetry in the Sunday NYTimes' Magazine?
Something to write to Apollo about!
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A wonderful idea. It makes me hungry for more poetry, mad with my thirst for the leaping syllables.
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It's great the new magazine will bring to the fore poetry every issue. For me it will be a source of new discovery. I'll be looking forward to the future work. I'd recommend readers look out for the Alaskan poet Olena Davis.
Yes, I say Yes to the inclusion of poetry in the NYT magazine. Abide is a wonderful choice of poetry; Jake Adam York was a wonderful workshop leader at Kenyon; Natasha Trethewey is a wonderful choice as editor. Thank you.
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This is a fine work, and by someone few of us have ever heard of.
A small quibble. We don't need the credit line concerning the poetry editor, Natasha Treshaway. It gets in the way of the presentation.
A small quibble. We don't need the credit line concerning the poetry editor, Natasha Treshaway. It gets in the way of the presentation.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for including a poem. 'Abide' is thoughtful; that Jake Adam York died at such a young age heightens the imagery for me. A distilled sense of life and knowing. Only one suggestion for this page----will you please consider making the weekly poem the one page without any advertising or other distracting links on the side. Just the page, the introduction and the poem. OK, you can keep the magazine logo at the top. Really though, it would heighten the reader's experience.
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Read this with a sweet, sad, sigh. Thanks.
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LOVE that you are now including a poem with each issue. And a poem by the late, great, and generous Jake Adam York is a lovely way to begin. Thank you.
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I came to abide modern poetry (I was, still am, I suppose, old school - at least old) when Natasha Trethewey read her poems in Pensacola. She, like Mr. York, struck me under the breast bone, in a place poetry had not struck me for many years. I thank both him (posthumously) and her!
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Poetry is in the air and it touches the heart of all who let it in.Why not open this to all poets who want to share theirs with the world, me included.