"An Interview with Jane Wong"
"Oftentimes, when I would perform at poetry readings, I’d tell these little stories about what inspired a poem (such as growing up in a restaurant and being locked in the meat freezer). I started to realize that these little poem 'intros' were insights into much larger stories—stories that go beyond my own family, my own relationships."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Isabel Zapata (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"I wrote the book Una ballena es un país (translated as A Whale Is a Country by Robin Myers), in an attempt to say what the language of the academy and the language of activism hadn’t allowed me to say....I conceived this book as an invitation to challenge the boundaries between action and reality, between poetry and essays and stories, between the role we think we play on this planet and the role that climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction demand we take up." |
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