ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Karthik Purushothaman comes from Chennai, India, and taught at William Paterson University and New Jersey City University after the MFA. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best New Poets 2018 anthology, Karthik has had work appear or forthcoming in Boulevard, EVENT, Hyperallergic, Rattle, Subtropics,The Common, and Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018. Despite embattled with Visa issues, Karthik hosts an event series in Manhattan that has featured elected reps & candidates, academics & activists, emerging poets, internet-famous comics, and Craig Newmark (of Craigslist).
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 25, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 25, 2019
The Sopranos
so I discover
men have
been hitting
higher octaves
since
stayin' alive
has become
the glove
on one
hand hiding
peeling skin
the opera
singer says
clicking
his tongue
at the throat
-clearing
contest
This poem artistically responds to the trend of poets “calling out” poets using targeted, deliberate and one-dimensional prose pieces, abandoning the ambiguity that’s ironically most characteristic of their form, thus undermining the complexity of the necessary inter-generational conversations being had.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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