Mario Chard
@mariochard
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“argentine abstraction approaching form” 🇺🇸🇦🇷
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Joined November 2013
Poetry is an action. There are others. It may lead to others. It may be the last one. But it doesn’t need to make something happen. It is the action.
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Honestly amazing how every illegal immigrant is simultaneously a destitute ward of the state AND fully approved for 30 year mortgages and soaking up all the quarter million dollar housing stock.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
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Any generation’s greatest pianist never touched a piano. Our greatest writer never wrote.
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And sharing art—defending the possibility of it, the space and freedom to produce meaning—becomes the purpose of making it
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And if that’s true several other things become important instead: honor and attention help sustain but promise little
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I’m still convinced that in their time the world’s greatest artists live, work, and die mostly unknown, uncelebrated.
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CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.
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Norman Dubie, “Thomas Hardy” You can hear the milk as it drills into wooden pails.
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There are few poems I adore & respect more than this miraculous & deeply moving poem by W.S. Merwin, which is the last poem in his last collection, Garden Time (@CopperCanyonPrs).
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Thank you, Mario Chard, for the drive through the mountains.
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"For the poet's life is really based upon despair of being able to become what is wished for, and this despair begets the wish. But "the wish" is the invention of disconsolateness for of course the wish provides momentary consolation...
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the one Bolaño poem that never fails to make me tear up (trans. by Laura Healy)
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New poem out today in the December issue of The New Republic. Tremendous thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips for taking it.
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Beyond thrilled to share a new poem by Larry Levis in The New Yorker! Along with David St. John & James Ciano, I’ve been hard at work for years researching and assembling Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis, forthcoming @GraywolfPress in 2026. The Levis legacy lives!
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