Mario Chard

a poem of past demonstrations in solidarity with present ones

14.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

White Dog First snow—I release her into it— I know, released, she won't come back.

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10.02.2025 22:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Poet Mario Chard

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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26.12.2024 20:29 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“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

05.12.2024 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

more weight

28.11.2024 16:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“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.

28.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

21.11.2024 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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?

21.11.2024 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When a hand meets a door/ one expects that it will open--/the hand, not the door. /The door is closed forever.

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.
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21.11.2024 14:12 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

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:

19.11.2024 19:15 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Morning by moonlight

18.11.2024 18:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sky makes sense for what follows one’s leaving the branch

16.11.2024 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0