I wanted to step into the painting—to feel the tree limbs underfoot, to imagine inhabiting the lighted landscape the painter created, to understand the forest in a new way. A painting is 2-D, but how can words make it 3-D? I hope this poem enlivens the painting, creates a portal for the reader, encourages looking up the original artwork, and for the question the poem asks to be worthy of the leap.
Sarah Audsley on "Field Dress Portal" |
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"A Love Letter to Diane di Prima"
"The sacred part of all poets is the golden cord that we share from birth to grave, and beyond. di Prima is, as my friend, the poet Samantha Zighelboim, said of her recently, 'everyone’s.' Her legacy belongs to all of us, with her work always going toward a truth, no matter what that means or how difficult it might be to swallow."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Reginald Dwayne Betts on the Million Book Project
"This is a big and funky and radical project. And so it gets walked out slowly....I think a lot of people who criticize different kinds of projects also don't understand what we mean. We’re putting a million books in prisons, and that's not even what I would imagine to be the kind of scale that I want a project like this to exist on. We want this Freedom Library to serve the same purpose as the libraries you find in people’s homes." |
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