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- Mekeel McBride (born 1950) is a poet and professor of writing at the University of New Hampshire. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the McDowell Colony, as well as being a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants. She is the author of six books of poetry. (en)
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- David Gruber (en)
- Mekeel McBride (en)
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- Kettle (en)
- An old woman gets tired of her sad face (en)
- Now, who knows whether she is old (en)
- She smiles and when she does that, (en)
- She's laughing as she peels the wrinkled skins (en)
- Then she takes that bowl into high grass (en)
- and leaves it there for the rough tongues (en)
- by moon into evening's kettle: new root soup. (en)
- for starlight to see itself in. (en)
- from red potatoes, drooping them moon (en)
- her reflection floating there but softened. (en)
- her sadness gets tricked into the bowl, (en)
- of homeless cats to scratch across; (en)
- or young, this woman who tricks away despair. (en)
- so she fills her soup bowl with fresh water (en)
- surprised to be lightened a little at last. (en)
- then stares into that small lake until she sees (en)
- Much of her work draws on the semi-rural areas of New Hampshire and Maine where she lives, and includes elements from working class life: beat-up cars, harmonicas, trash, barbecues, and many, many dogs... This is a poetry that is broadly democratic in a way that Emerson would have liked. And unlike traditionally lyrical poetry, where we might expect mere pathos — or, worse, condescension — her poems allow a strangeness and value to working-class experience. (en)
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- The Deepest Part of the River (en)
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- Mekeel McBride (born 1950) is a poet and professor of writing at the University of New Hampshire. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the McDowell Colony, as well as being a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants. She is the author of six books of poetry. (en)
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