| Please join Poetry Daily editorial board members Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky on Tuesday, November 2 at 7:30pm ET for an intimate online reading and conversation about Akbar’s Pilgrim Bell, his highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. |
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Tracy K. Smith on Lucille Clifton
"Clifton uses the occasion of her father’s funeral to attest to the lives lived and the marks made by the generations of people she descends from. First they are names, dates, and places. Like Caroline Donald—Mammy Ca’line—'born free among the Dahomey people in 1822 and died free in Bedford Virginia in 1910.' To reinscribe these lives into recollected history is to restore history itself to a rightful state of commotion."
via THE PARIS REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Shara Lessley on Li-Young Lee's "My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud"
"The more I studied 'My Father, in Heaven...,' the more I appreciated the stanzas’ complexity, pattern-making, and interiority, and how the poem reflected the lyric’s capacity as a communal art. I knew this is what I wanted. Whether I could write anything of dimension was uncertain. But in Lee’s work I discovered textures of energy, music, and intimacy I hoped to emulate—even if I couldn’t predict my effort’s outcome." |
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MFA Open House November 1
Join Mason Creative Writing students, faculty, and administrators for an online open house and discover one of the country's more distinctive MFA programs. With opportunities through our brand-new Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice, an MFA from Mason can make all the difference to your artistic and professional life.
Register here or call 703-993-1185. |
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