Robert Polito
@Fantomas2go
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Poet (Hollywood & God). Essayist. NBCC Award biographer (Savage Art: Jim Thompson). Professor of Writing, New School MFA. Past President, Poetry Foundation.
New York
Joined September 2013
Robert Polito - “The Poetry of Fact” - w. Tess Taylor, Tom Sleigh, Brian Turner, & Camille Dungy
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Can a Poem Change How You See a Photograph? Leah Ollman’s New Anthology Says Yes — about photography
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A photograph freezes time. A poem gives it meaning. For years, Leah Ollman noticed how often people used the word “poetic” to describe photographs, and she wanted to understand why. Photography Book...
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RT @democracynow: New Release of Bob Dylan's "Hard Rain" as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary https://t.c….
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On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining...
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“Girlfriends,” by Kim Addonizio | The New Yorker
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“Now we’re older we know who’s gotten sober / or been bitten by God or chewed and discarded / under a dirty bus shelter.”
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Rebecca Chase - Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure via @lithub.
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In the window seat in economy class, I turn my face to the glass so the woman next to me can pretend she doesn’t notice that I’m crying. She’s sitting between me and her teenage daughter, who is pl…
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“Let Me Tell You What I Love.” Remembering Fanny Howe via @lithub.
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“My Irish mother used to say to me, ‘You’re a tinker. You make a little mess and move on.’” I can’t help but think of Fanny Howe, gone at 84, through her mother’s perceptive words. Howe was a…
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Jack Whitten by Kenneth Goldsmith@BOMBmagazine
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“The father of new abstraction” on his southern sensibility, the spirit of the ’60s, and the keys to artistic survival.
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Fanny Howe - Her Paris Review Interview -
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“If I could say I was assigned something at birth, it would be to keep the soul fresh and clean, and to not let anything bring it down.”
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Jane Alison - Immaculate, Erotic and Quintessentially Modern: On Edna O’Brien’s Night via @lithub.
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“What is your type?” Mary Hooligan asks a prospective lover in Edna O’Brien’s early novel Night. “Do you like it straight or sausage, do you like rubber goods?” Later, another prospect asks Mary if…
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“Writing is Fighting:” Inside Toni Morrison’s Literary Collaboration With Muhammad Ali ‹ Literary Hub
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Sometimes editors want a sign their writers are still out there. The deadline might have been a few months—or even years—ago, and they aren’t expecting a completed manuscript, maybe not even pages …
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So sad to learn of the passing of Joshua Clover over the weekend. Met him in Berkeley in 1999. Here’s his poem, “I Want to Read at the White House,” with his beautiful, incisive intro.
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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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How Black poets built the 'centrifugal force' in modern American literature
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Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one of the most influential literary organizations in the U.S.
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Rob Spillman — Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump via @lithub.
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A functioning democracy needs dissent and debate. Trump won the 2024 election with 49.8 percent of the vote (with 77,302,580 total votes) over Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent (with 75,017,613 total vo…
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RT @PeterDee67: @Fantomas2go Hi Mr Polito, just finished Savage Art, it was as dark as Thompson's best books, I am sure he would have appre….
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Bob Holman - “Scotty and the Rib Tips”
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So they tell me, get your act together / Write something, make it new
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Sophie Calle - Third Sleeper: Bob Garison
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November 18, 2024 – “At ten, I wake him up by taking a photo. I bring him his coffee. I forgot the pain au chocolat and disregarded the newspaper.”
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RT @Sulli864: With a nice copy of a Jim Thompson bio in the window from poet Robert Politto, aka @Fantomas2go.
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RT @bobdylan: Nick Newman had replied to a tweet a few weeks back asking me what movies I would recommend. I told him to try The Unknown wi….
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RT @POETSorg: A crooked growth means it can be a loophole. And a loophole can be a means to freedom. I like being free. I like kisses on th….
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Where is my head? I’m not sure. Why are some people born straight,
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