Poetry to Help Summer Linger
"Tess Taylor gives Mary Louise Kelly a few poems to help summer vibes linger," including poems by C.D. Wright, Jericho Brown, and Stefania Heim. "Poetry is light and fast. It's - you can read a poem in a minute, and then it can linger with you. And so it's a little way of keeping some daydreaminess with you as we head into this very busy season."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on Self Interrogation
"I don’t read this poem and think of the practical relevance or irrelevance of poetry, but I do get the sense of being both cursed and culpable from the way Vallejo renders conscious (and consciousness of) suffering. It may seem strange to say that the poem feels like a chance to notice when it expresses so much restless melancholy, but the speaker’s honesty with his doubts keeps his sense of compassion from hardening into self-congratulation." |
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