This poem is about the relationship to the body and gender to physical work; The saying in Arabic I heard all my life from my mother.
Ghinwa Jawhari on "it is not a shame to work // الشغل مش عيب" |
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Profile of Robert Pinsky
"As these rhythms became deeply ingrained in him, Pinsky says that, even when the most prolific prose pounder prognosticated, all he could hear was the 'music' of the words. 'Poetry is the sister art of music,' he maintained. 'It was through the ear and the voice that I realized it was the art I wanted to give my life to.' Though he reflected that poetry was once a road to 'elevation' and inclusion in America, Pinsky opines that some schools still segregate poetry in ways that make it difficult to approach."
via FIFTY PLUS ADVOCATE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Kai Ihns on Building Community
"I think this dispersed but somehow coherent ‘I’ that exists in relation and as a problem of negotiating how one is oriented… I’m interested in this because I do feel like it’s a way poetry can process its world, in this case a world that requires complex negotiations of… realities, and the selves that can exist in them. You have to actively negotiate what you think the ground is, all the time… and that partially determines how you can be in relation." |
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