{"id":1064,"date":"2023-10-10T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T02:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2023-10-10T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T02:21:07","slug":"why-we-chose-it-forcemeat-by-henry-goldkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/why-we-chose-it-forcemeat-by-henry-goldkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Chose It: \u201cForcemeat\u201d by Henry Goldkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cForcemeat\u201d by Henry Goldkamp was selected for publication by\u00a0<em>Mid-American Review<\/em>\u00a0poetry staff for issue 42.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForcemeat\u201d brings you into a unique moment between two people as they play a game of deciding if something is more like a muskmelon or muskrat. \u201cThe felled log we set on this noon. \/\/ That would be muskmelon.\u201d But, more than a game, these images take you as a reader through an emotional journey that is set by the speaker but up to the reader to interpret. The form and spacing works to guide you through the piece, to pause at the right times, to experience the new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForcemeat\u201d is uniquely itself, and unlike many poems we receive in our submissions manager. It was something as poetry editor I\u2019m always keeping my eye out for, something that surprises me, changes me, and lingers. \u201cForcemeat\u201d was a poem I couldn\u2019t shake. The distinct voice Goldkamp works into this piece helps ground it and give these unnamed characters life. There are many things our editors found to love in this piece, and images that felt distinct to something <em>Mid-American Review<\/em> gravitates toward. As a reader you walk away with part of this poem following in your shadow, hiding in your mind. It leaves you looking at everything and asking, \u201cIs it closer to a muskmelon, or a muskrat?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013\u2013Megan Borocki, Poetry Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cForcemeat\u201d by Henry Goldkamp was selected for publication by\u00a0Mid-American Review\u00a0poetry staff for issue 42.1. \u201cForcemeat\u201d brings you into a unique&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[203,202,85,41,204,63,29],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-why-we-chose-it","tag-forcemeat","tag-henry-goldkamp","tag-mar","tag-mid-american-review","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}