There is a searching that is also a gathering up. There is a discovering, which is also a falling-out-of-the-sky revelation. It is from within these two realms that I write poetry. I don't really come to writing with any kind of intentions. I usually write from what strikes me or from the fact that you can take a word like "rescue" and rearrange all those letters and make the word "secure."
Pam Rehm on "Giving Up Reason" |
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"Images and Text: Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Poetic Echoes"
“It's almost like sculpting. But, sculpting is a kind of subtraction, and then interweaving, and then just figuring out where I should begin, which comes next. I don't want another one of that sequence yet, because I wanna try something over here. So it was kind of intuitive. It's almost like each of the poems are holding their breath until they reemerge.”
via THE UNIVERSITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on What Keeps Us
"The sub-title of this installment of What Sparks Poetry is 'Poems to Read in Community.' The Poetry Daily team convened this semester, inspired by C.D. Wright’s 'What Keeps,' to select a group of twenty poems, most from our last year of publication, that one might pass across the table—to a loved one, to oneself. In last year’s version of this feature, Kerry Folan said the poems selected were meant to 'offer sustenance.' Roque Dalton did say that poetry, like bread, is for everyone. And I still think that holds true." |
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