I think of this as my “birth poem.” I had often imagined that, in giving birth, the memory of being born would return. A second beginning. Despite chronological age, I often imagine others are older, planted on Earth before me, and more securely. Watching life emerge from my own body, from the same space one might locate the soul, I had to reckon with the shock of the present moment, the violence of Being, surrounded by the unknown. Time’s intimacy.
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North Dakota Names First Native American Poet Laureate
"North Dakota lawmakers have appointed a Chippewa woman as the state's poet laureate, making her the first Native American to hold this position in the state and increasing attention to her expertise on the troubled history of Native American boarding schools. Denise Lajimodiere, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, has written several award-winning books of poetry."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Laila Malik on "the organic properties of sand"
"In the petroleum economies of al Khaleej (as elsewhere), there exist micro-universes of so-called expats, a blossoming confusion of recent arrivals and longstanding, multi-generational clans, the newly affluent and then those others who live at the porous boundaries of the less desirable micro-universe of outsiders, migrant workers." |
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| Write with Poetry Daily This April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll share popular writing prompts from our "What Sparks Poetry" essay series each morning. Write along with us! Pick a poem that you love, but that is new to you. We’ll call it Poem A. Print it out, triple-spacing the lines. Now, in the empty space between each line of Poem A, write a response line of your own—a line that responds only to that one line of Poem A, not to the rest of the poem. Once you have a response line for each line of poem A, discard Poem A and build a poem of your own made only from response lines. Serves One John Cotter |
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