Kent Shaw

@kentdshaw

Second book: Too Numerous (UMass Press, 2019). Database caretaker for . I teach at Wheaton College in MA. U.S. Navy veteran.

Pawtucket, RI
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Joined September 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    2 Dec 2019

    Everyone, I have an essay at the latest issue of . It's about me, a database, and the deep, abiding love I hold for it. I can't help it. All the data IS ABOUT POETRY!!!!

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  2. Jan 25

    Is it because I'm from the Midwest? That I have secret moments where I hunger for Applebee's? Or Melissa Etheridge? I swear I could taste happy hour apps reading Siobhan Scrarry's poem in the new !

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  3. Jan 24

    It was such a festive reading tonight with ! It was great seeing you !

    after the paper caressing, I made it to just in time to see & ! great night!
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  4. Jan 24

    In just a few hours. There will be cupcakes!

    Friends, I'll be reading at Twenty Stories Book Store in Providence, RI, with my pal, . The reading is at 7:00PM tonight!
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  5. Jan 23

    I have admired 's poems for so long. Because I like the feeling of pre-laugh. The awkwardness that could go either way. Sad? Hilarious? Like in this poem at . I'm like, All this on a Sunday? Hilarious! The couple who are both wasted? Sad.

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  6. Jan 22

    Me and appearing together. In PVD. This Friday. 7pm. It will be fun. I'm locating cupcakes to share with you.

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  7. Jan 20

    Honestly, as I get older, I come to see how best a thing sliced bread is.

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  8. Jan 20

    I've been reading through 's Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems, and I can't quit thinking about Martha Ronk's Transfer of Qualities. It's like how Ronk articulates and expands this refined domestic space, Cheng does the same to a mythology of the feminine.

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    Jan 19

    So, I guess and I are now both undefeated in elections and undefeated in New York Times endorsements!

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  10. Jan 13

    In reading through Cole Swensen's On Walking On, and its tight bond tying together walking and writing, I thought, Why not pair Swensen's book with another book: Brian Teare's Doomstead Days. That fascinating, deliberative headspace of a walker!

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  11. Jan 12

    As someone who believes in "poetic justice," I can confidently say. I will be very happy when is the Democratic nominee. Pass a wealth tax. Get those folks who were never punished for what they did in 2008 to pay. Can people remember the outrage of Occupy?

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  12. Jan 10

    I keep being fascinated by the many incarnations of ecopoetry over the last five years. This poem from by F. Daniel Rzicznek has this great combination of oddness and earnestness when looking at a wind turbine.

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  13. Jan 10

    Reading with was so fun in 2019 that it's just GOT to keep going into 2020. We're set to read for on January 24 at 7pm. It would be great to see people there!

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  14. Jan 9

    One of my 2019 highlights: Getting a poem in New American Writing! The poem: "How many men does it take to perfect the male odor." I hope you can find a way to the issue, because the whole thing looks fantastic. As always!

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  15. Jan 7

    The poems from , in the new , are like portraits of house as person, or person submerged by house, or home entrenching the earth. Read this one. Then look into the issue. The other is as fascinating.

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  16. Jan 7

    For what each does with domestic space, and the shape of their respective speakers responding to that domestic space, I would suggest a pairing of 's Soldier On and 's The Year of the Femme. Such extensive and intricate articulations of home life!

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    Jan 6

    Jeff Bezos⬇️ 2010 net worth: $12 billion 2019 net worth: $112 billion Mark Zuckerberg⬇️ 2010 net worth: $4 billion 2019 net worth: $76 billion Larry Page⬇️ 2010 net worth: $28 billion 2019 net worth: $61 billion 2010 federal minimum wage: $7.25 2019 federal minimum wage: $7.25

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  18. Jan 6

    "how do they do that?" asks in these poems up at . But, please, Mr. Landman, how do YOU do that charm, that guileless thinking, that being in the world inquisitively, and helpfully, and IN POEMS!

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  19. Jan 4

    I always appreciate how Ish Klein's poems just roll with it. Like whatever the circumstance, they'll roll. In this one, it feels like tentativeness meets with assertiveness. And it's fun! Thanks to for publishing the piece!

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  20. Jan 3

    There is something about 's a year from today that just keeps living with me. And, today, reading 's "Virtue Theory" (in her new book, Earth), I thought of how both poets absorb reality, like thinking and reality and being in the middle of all that.

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  21. Jan 3

    This poem from , from a 2013 issue of has such a variety of tones, some hard, mainly soft. Like the poem thinking of the unique word describing when you pick a strand of hair off the carpet!!

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