Archive - Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

Seamus Heaney's "Casualty"

Thoughts on running.

Apr 14 •

Gwendolyn Brooks's "To the Young Who Want to Die"

Thoughts on the certain and uncertain.

Apr 7 •

March 2024

Peter Cole's "Can You Hear Me?"

Thoughts on trying.

Mar 31 •

Chet'la Sebree's "Oceans could separate us, but no"

Thoughts on touch and constellations.

Mar 24 •

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "Upon Arrival"

Thoughts on solidarity as an enlargement of our imaginative capability.

Mar 17 •

Christina Olson's "The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You"

Thoughts on the paradox of it all.

Mar 10 •

Paige Lewis's "On the Train, a Man Snatches My Book"

Thoughts on the scale of who we are.

Mar 3 •

February 2024

Carrie Fountain's "The Life"

Thoughts on this, too, being a life.

Feb 25 •

Adélia Prado's "Lamentation to Move Jonathan" (translated by Jessica Goudeau)

Thoughts on more-ness and all-ness.

Feb 18 •

R. A. Villanueva's "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Thoughts on love.

Feb 11 •

Loisa Fenichell's "Act III, Scene III"

Thoughts on stillness.

Feb 4 •

January 2024

Madeleine Cravens's "Leaving"

Thoughts on the pleasure of error.

Jan 28 •

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