This poem started life in Victoria Redel’s summer workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, several years ago. Victoria gave a single instruction: words of one syllable only. Despite the humble beginning, “Green Swoon” became the lead poem in "A Slow Green Sleep." I’m always astonished at the power of self-imposed limitations like these. I think there must be a lesson in how to live in that.
Jonathan Weinert on "Green Swoon" |
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"Carl Phillips Wins Jackson Poetry Prize, $75,000 Award"
"The prize is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent....In their citation the judges noted: 'Phillips is a love poet; he wants to know what one human has to do with another, what one owes another, and how all of this translates into desire and the capacity to inspire moral or immoral reactions.'"
via POETS & WRITERS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes on Ama Codjoe's "Superpower"
"Each time I read 'Superpower,' I’m astonished by the turns the poem keeps making: from the playful to the horrifying, spanning over a hundred years in a few lines. The poem moves from an imagined fantasy of a superhero, to the folk hero John Henry, to an unnamed enslaved woman, to a (re)imagined memory of the speaker’s mother." |
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Poetry Daily stands with the Black community.
We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality.
We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world. Black Lives Matter. |
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