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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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October 31, 2018
 

Epistemological

 
Richard Wehrenberg
Wehrenberg reads "Epistemological."

About This Poem

 

"This poem centers on a delightful little fact: before the main post office in Bloomington, Indiana, was a post office, it was a buffet-style restaurant called Ponderosa. In this poem, I am curious about what kinds of epistemologies (i.e., theories of knowing or unknowing) rise in us from the often hurricane-like and harried thought processes concocted and corroborated by the vast and varied American quotidian that necessarily houses the baggage—and delights, yes—of our eternal relationships with each other. How can trust, vulnerability—love—be chosen, engendered, gifted? I want to say: if we can be allowed to remember one thing, let it be the tender process by which we heal sorrow back into joy. This poem is a bow of reverence to Maggie Anderson and her poem of the same title, which houses a line that is often thrumming in my mind: 'How casually and certainly / we say things about the only world we know.'"
Richard Wehrenberg

 

Richard Wehrenberg is the author of the chapbooks Abracadabrachrysanthemum (w the trees, 2018), Hands (Monster House Press, 2015), and River (Monster House Press, 2014). They are a book and graphic designer living in Bloomington, Indiana.

Poetry by Wehrenberg

 

Abracadabrachrysanthemum

(w the trees, 2018)

"Nihilism" by Nhã Thuyên

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"Where I Eat" by Claire Schwartz

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"This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball" by Brendan Constantine

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October Guest Editor: Ross Gay

 

Thanks to Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Gay and our guest editors for the year.

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"Epistemological" by Richard Wehrenberg