Winter is the season of death, and it precedes new life; sometimes a cry or song can be one of sorrow, pain, or grief but often it leads into a new season of life, even one of fear or uncertainty. All the while, we are blessed, though sometimes it's difficult to see.
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Visit Poetry Daily @ AWP
Booth #1203
To celebrate AWP 2024, Poetry Daily is giving away two signed broadside editions of Ilya Kaminsky's poem, "A Walking Man." Drop by our booth today and talk to a Poetry Daily staff member to find out more. And thank you, as always, for keeping Poetry Daily alive and thriving.
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An Interview with Sarah Ghazal Ali
"Theophanies is not an autobiographical account of personal suffering or subjugation. I resent the way I’ve been expected to perform my freedom over the years, in classrooms and in conversations, and so I write poems that practice refusing to do so. If there’s anything I aspired to do with this book as a material object in the world, it’s along the lines of praying. I hope the book is read as beseeching."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on "Black Box"
"My poem, 'Black Box,' is beguiled by the metaphor of the black box as a way to broach the world, the people around us, and our own hearts. Part of that beguilement also has to do with the very limits of the black box metaphor itself; conceptual orderliness of a certain way of thinking can imprison us in a limiting framework—the black box is itself a black box. One way out of this is to construct more conceptual frameworks with horizons of possibility going far beyond what we hold to be true, or at least, visible." |
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