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Mario Chard
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“argentine abstraction approaching form”
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Sky makes sense for what follows one’s leaving the branch
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a poem of past demonstrations in solidarity with present ones
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Southern Indiana Review fall 2024 Twenty-seven Contributors Salute, Day 21: Mario Chard

Mario Chard is author of Land of Fire, winner of the 2019 Dorset Prize and the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. Find his work in The Nation, The New Yorker, and POETRY.

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December 26, 2024 at 8:29 PM
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”

Kate Chopin
December 5, 2024 at 8:39 PM
more weight
November 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
“And what was found is lost
Yes it is
Yes it is
Yes it is…”

— “Mahashmashana”

Crying to a song by Father John Misty. Unprecedented times.
November 28, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Y’all remember when Ilya said “Some poets are more passionate at faculty meetings than in their poems”? Cause I’ve never gotten over it.
November 21, 2024 at 9:43 PM
I paired The Remains of the Day with “One Art” in class, two liars betrayed by their texts, deepest irony. Could have shown that scene of Walt calling Skyler in Ozymandias. What else?
November 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Such a fine tiny poem, full of mystery. There are so many moving poems in Tony Leuzzi's book Fog Notes, and some of the best short form poems ever. Here is one of my favorites that I memorized and often say to myself like a dark little prayer.
#poetry
November 21, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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G.C. Waldrep's The Opening Ritual is out from Tupelo. As always, a massive book. It concludes his trilogy on chronic illness and faith. It's OK to start with this book. It's a pretty loose trilogy. Absolutely recommend. Here's the opening poem, that contextualizes the book's title:
November 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Morning by moonlight
November 18, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Sky makes sense for what follows one’s leaving the branch
November 16, 2024 at 11:44 PM