"Madeleine Cravens on Creating a School for Yourself"
"Through this book, I was thinking a lot about my relationship to Brooklyn, my relationship to my family, my relationship to intimacy, to knowing people and being known, and a lot of those questions are not as prevalent for me anymore because I’m no longer in that context. I was writing about Brooklyn, and the book was becoming the book, and then I had to move for the Stegner Fellowship in California. The book does pivot in the end to some poems about California, just because I was finding it quite hard to write about New York when I was no longer there, so then that became the ending of the book."
via THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Talin Tahajian on Language as Form
"All the affordances of the medium of language come together to realize the musical and narrative sequences of this poem, which taught me the fundamentals of rhythm and pacing. 'Half-Light' is one of the first poems I memorized. It is a 'pre-existing form,' as Bidart describes across his poetry and interviews, that I inhabit almost every time I try to write, mostly unbeknownst to my more conscious enterprises." |
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