Lauren Camp

Sometimes when you read modern poetry, you see voices that would be great in full length, long poem formats--ie. an entire volume of one piece of work. One of these types of people is Lauren Camp, especially for her piece "Motion" in TinderboxPoetryJournal, vol.1 isssue 2.

This particular poem has an incredible voice that seems to emerge at the end, it's a type of Plath-like yet shuddering, eerie Poe inspired tone. Modern poetry can blend older distinct styles or famous thematic tones together to create amazing new work.

Here's an excerpt:

[...]
I watch from the window as night keeps loosening and coming down

with its charcoal heavy body, cloud-stretched and moon-stamped,
then drag-around dark with sunset off in a corner. Dead-ahead lightning

and long shadows of winter. The ground shoulders each hour of cold.