"How Jorie Graham Wrote the Best Book of her Long Career"
“A Jorie Graham poem is a deep burrow into a position from which one can gather nothing but the sense of being terribly alive. It is a nakedness from which story will not appear to save you. There are many writers with righteous self-assurance, and many comfortable with bewilderment, and they are only rarely the same people. It is Graham's unearthly self-possession in the presence of mystery that renders her poetry so strange.”
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lesley Battler on "redundant"
"I chose to feature 'redundant' as this is one of my first poems written as the pandemic started to unfold. It marks a shift in my work, from a focus on resource industry capitalism to a more interior world, mapping the psychological dissonance caused by the virus along with the greater issue of climate change. In this poem, and in all my post-COVID writing, I have continued working with found texts and I think this poem’s language and boxed-in structure reflect a sense of diminishment and claustrophobia." |
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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!
In the spirit of Li Po's "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon," look into the stars on a dark clear night while you sip a glass of wine or two. Then write a poem exploring how alone you feel; or perhaps in some intimacy with such vastness, not alone at all. A poem using words, or perhaps not using words. David Hinton |
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