Tag: Mike White

Nancy Takacs’ “The Worrier” Wins 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry

By 15 Bytes on September 11, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Our relationship to the environment, notions of fatherhood, patriarchy and violence, and the way one can come to live by language appear in the poems of the finalists for this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award in poetry. Nancy Takacs’ “The Worrier,” a collection of interior dialogues coming to […]

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Poetic Afterthoughts: Mike White’s Addendum to a Miracle

By Jason Olsen on February 18, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Jean Valentine, when once asked about the difference between a short poem and a longer poem, answered that a short poem was “like putting your face in icy water.” The water in Mike White’s Addendum to a Miracle, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in Britain, is indeed […]