I recently read Li-Young Lee's "The Undressing," which urges, "And by God, sing! For nothing. Singing / is origin." In this poem, I imagine singing is both origin and survival, a way of holding close what has become distant. When we cannot speak, we sing. And when we cannot sing, we sing.
Stephanie Niu on "A Lao Jia Song Is a Song of Home" |
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Amanda Gorman, 22-Year-Old Inauguration Poet
"Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in memory, and she has made news before. In 2014, she was named the first Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, and three years later she became the country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on "Resurrection"
"This element of Kurdish delights me: to crack a word open and peer inside it, to find a world within a word, a world where the abstract is embodied. The Kurdish language calls the body into every conversation, fashioning idea from body. There is no hiding the body, not even to protect it." |
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