Aaron Belz

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Signals, Smartphones, and Still Small Voices

Aaron Belz Jan 25, 2013

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Signals, Smartphones, and Still Small Voices

The human race must be busier than ever, knowing and retelling, talking and reading, liking and scrolling, deleting and adding—friending, following.

Yet sitting at the Wooden Nickel, in my physical body, wearing my particular clothes, I’m presented with a different, or at least complementary, range of possibilities.

On Satire

Aaron Belz Mar 26, 2012

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On Satire

Jokes: a sophisticated form of border patrol and, in parody especially, correction.

A Regimen of Aimless Strolling

Aaron Belz Feb 20, 2012

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A Regimen of Aimless Strolling

Billy Collins sashays into Big Ideas with apparent ease, poem after poem—death, love, the self, the death of love, love of the self. Beginning with the impossible or the mundane he transforms the conversation, like a witty party guest, into larger questions: Who am I? Why am I here?

Aaron Belz Dec 2, 2011

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A Poet’s Evolution

Johnston’s purpose is to explore the tension between the subjective and the objective, to keep these two realms of experience in balance.

Aaron Belz Mar 1, 2010 The story

Dividing Zero

Dividing one makes two, and so on. But dividing zero? “Nothing can come of nothing,” Lear laments—and yet, as you know, God’s signature’s here. Where zero was, is one, then two: two lights, moon and sun; then man and woman; two brothers, two kingdoms— then one, one...

Aaron Belz Jan 15, 2010

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Fractals

Beset with information, and information, and information, what is the self?

Aaron Belz Jul 10, 2009

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Poetry’s next wave

The best of the new crop of poets are bridging the gap between avant-garde obscurantism and traditional narrative poetry. Consider the latest anthology from W.W. Norton, a browser’s introduction to poetry today.