M.I. Devine
@famous_letter
Warhol's Mother's Pantry @OhioStatePress; "pops off the page"-@LAReviewofBooks; WARHOLA, the record; Pop practitioner, Prof; DADAMAMA, links: 👇
Once upon a time (and a very good time it was) pop was “bracing and exhilarating…” (remember?) Thanks to my friends @PLSoc for the (many) kind words…. ❤️ @ohiostatepress
always a poet--did @BorisDralyuk sneak a blue eye-rhyme in this photo with that shirt? dude just don't stop!
@BorisDralyuk, acclaimed translator of authors as diverse as Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, and recently Vernon Duke, returns to our pages to talk about the role of the translator, ICE immigration raids in his city of LA, and more. Our candid interview: tinyurl.com/54n5jnar
My students were particularly pleased I used a class favorite for an epigraph on this one: 'Slowly you restore / The fractured world.' @ae_stallings “Jigsaw Puzzle”
A chest of literary treasure awaits you in our archives. Here's a little gem from M.I. Devine on Andy Warhol as puzzle — Dappled Things dappledthings.org/deep-down-thin…
This is terrific!:
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine (@famous_letter), from our Summer 2025 issue.
part of my long-running rap battle with Kittler. In grad school, everyone dug him. Except this MC. from my essay in the new issue of @newversereview OUT THIS WEEK!
A beautiful poem by @famous_letter in @NimrodJournal . And a lesson in creative allusivity. Thank you. This got me. "He was full of sleep and not enough."
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine (@famous_letter), from our Summer 2025 issue.
"In lieu of flowers, he said Words but words, in lieu of flowers, are not enough." Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz) by @famous_letter @NimrodJournal
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine (@famous_letter), from our Summer 2025 issue.
putting the da back in dada thanks to @NimrodJournal & @BorisDralyuk
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine (@famous_letter), from our Summer 2025 issue.
I love it when famous fathers get together.
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine (@famous_letter), from our Summer 2025 issue.
this sounds like Wilson writing about Cummings in the Dial. I'm glad to hear it :)
This essay is like a merry-go-round became a rollercoaster. Really glad I read it
"The answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?" Proud of this one: Thanks to @StevenEKnepper & @newversereview for offering space to explore the sounds of what we mean. Part of a remarkable series on metrical poetry.
Now at NVR, M.I. Devine (@famous_letter) writes about Philip Larkin, form, and poetry in a time of war. "I want a poem that’s not just tragic, but something more, something grander, stranger, funnier, wilder, something deeply obsolete, which is to say, true."
Congrats @BorisDralyuk
New today! Vernon Duke's richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the “serious” and “popular” music worlds. New edition includes an Introduction by @BorisDralyuk as well as his translations of Duke's original poems. shorturl.at/X2G37
Parenting; or, Dadamama
Marcel Duchamp directs a life-size chess game, 1956
Fanny Howe has a poem about a hut (a heart, a poem). The strangest thing: it starts like this.. The Hut Up the hill is a hut made of sound where two windows rhyme and the tiles stay on because they are nailed to a dream. [...and, impossibly, gets better.]
![famous_letter's tweet image. Fanny Howe has a poem about a hut (a heart, a poem).
The strangest thing: it starts like this..
The Hut
Up the hill is a hut made of sound
where two windows rhyme
and the tiles stay on
because they are nailed to a dream.
[...and, impossibly, gets better.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GvcTRbkWUAAZRpC.jpg)
i dreamed the ai dream again that there was nothing new to say yet strangely not more sad than when i learned by rote how first to pray [nothing new for my friends @HylaBrookPoets]
If we knew someone who cobbled together elements from the works of others in order to make a story, a poem, an image, a piece of music...we would not think much of that person's accomplishment, and the thing "made" would not last through time. #ChatGPT #AI
The latest @NimrodJournal is so very very good. I am happy to see my "Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz)" absurdly beating time in the midst of so many fine poets...
