HeyJaredPhilip Metres
sentient and sentimental creature that I am... I work with words
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The Metres Memorization Challenge (opens the original)
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The Ark of Peace (opens the original)
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Special thanks to World Literature Today for publishing this piece on their blog about 9/11 25 years ago, as I remember it now. _________________This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" type="email
The Poetics of Attention in Tarkovsky’s Stalker (opens the original)
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Top Poetry Podcasts (opens the original)
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What is Avalon to you? (opens the original)
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My last essay, about the gift of creating space for young writers, got me thinking about paradise. Last weekend at Mass, I heard the Gospel of Matthew in which Jesus goes parabolic, including this gem: “the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides and out of joy goes and sells all he has and buys the field.” I kept thinking about the layers of this all day, talking with my wife and daughter about it later, wondering over the historical context of ent
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