Ryan Nowlin
Notes from an Open Channel
Notes from an Open Channel Sonnet and Sonnet 8 1/2 — I owe the thematic material at the outset of this sonnet to Joan Accella’s well...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Jul 5, 2022
- 7 min
Some Notes on Versification
Some Notes on Versification ---Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 is deservedly the most famous of all the sonnets, sometimes so much so that one...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Nov 16, 2021
- 8 min
The Cathedral
The Cathedral 1 In Central America’s leafy parenthesis some sliver of light appears from that magnificent jungle edifice, the famous...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Sep 22, 2021
- 6 min
Notes from an Open Channel
Notes from an Open Channel I. The State of Being Lost I could have stayed in Central America, happily ensconced within its leafy...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Sep 2, 2021
- 9 min
Notes from an Open Channel, Sections 1-15
Notes from an Open Channel 1 These are the gauchos roaming the pampas and those are the Gauleiters gliding through a series of Zoom...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Jul 29, 2021
- 6 min
Notes from an Open Channel
Notes from an Open Channel 1 These are the gauchos roaming the pampas and those are the Gauleiters gliding through a series of Zoom...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
A Darkening of Responsibility
A Darkening of Responsibility Pessoa adopted heteronyms tighter than ceilings, yet the spiders had the moldings under cultivation, like...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
A Darkening of Difficult Achievements
A Darkening of Difficult Achievements*** Edwin Denby nearly revised himself out of existence; His notes reveal a mind redacting the...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Thoughts On Ruth Bader Ginsburg
--- Few figures in the Supreme Court have inspired the respect, admiration and impact as Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away yesterday...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Aug 3, 2019
- 1 min
Notes from an Open Channel
Notes from an Open Channel Never ending note taking and a mocking silence caught something of the frequency in the room. Maybe it’s best...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Aug 3, 2019
- 3 min
Final Draft of Time with the Season
Time with the Season Time with the season; only she doth carry June in her eyes, in her heart January. ---The Spring, Thomas Carew Three...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Jun 8, 2019
- 8 min
Time with the Season
Time with the Season Time with the season: only she doth carry June in her eyes, in heart January. ---The Spring, Thomas Carew 1 Three...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Mar 29, 2019
- 5 min
Notes from an Open Channel ( in progress).
Notes from an Open Channel 1 When visiting the 2012 summer writing program at Naropa University’s “Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Mar 4, 2019
- 1 min
Part of Section 8 of Time with the Season
8 In old Westerns when you saw a train at nine a.m. it was still leaving at noon, growing fainter as the day wore on as if it had been...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Feb 24, 2019
- 6 min
Time with the Season
Time with the Season Time with the season: only she doth carry June in her eyes, in heart January. ---The Spring, Thomas Carew 1 Through...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Feb 10, 2019
- 1 min
Word on the Street ( A Pantoum)
Word on the Street I consider Ricky to be the orchestrator of cheap alliances, screwed up optics and bright Christmas trees of blood...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Dec 29, 2018
- 1 min
Notes from an Open Channel, Section 5
5 “poetry is a holiday of the mind...The poet’s brain is a sea bottom on which many hulls repose....” ---Valery The naive conceit, a deer...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Dec 26, 2018
- 3 min
Notes from an Open Channel, sections 3 and 4
3 In the white sterility of the frozen food empire I lost my mind. What remained was sold to a grocery outfit. White bear of the poles,...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Dec 24, 2018
- 3 min
Notes from an Open Channel, Sections 1 and 2
Notes from an Open Channel 1 Through honeyed leagues of the Northland Border, a black bear approached a nice lump of fur by Joseph Beuys...
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Ryan Nowlin
- Sep 23, 2018
- 3 min
Circling Back
I find myself circling back to journals and notes and things written years ago; Adjacent to or to the side of is the running theme of...
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