Adrienne Su
Hard, green.
Ripened, fragile.

Spiced cling.
Breyers All Natural.

Coffee cake, Jell-O,
cobbler, preserves.

In watercolor
with flowers, birds.

Long-life emblem,
acidic-sweet.

Name of every
downtown street.

More Winn-Dixie
than Samarkand.

License plate,
tollbooth scan.

Tiny carvings
in tiny pits—

Buddhas, houses,
forests, fish—

high artistic
economy.

Flesh has a price.
Stones are free.
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Collage graphic of Canisia Lubrin and her book "The Dyzgraphxst"
2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Announced

Canisia Lubrin and Valzhyna Mort have been awarded the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize, which gives out two $65,000 prizes — one to a book of Canadian poetry and one to an international book of poetry.

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What Sparks Poetry:
Charles Baxter on Theodore Roethke's "The Meadow Mouse"

"When a poem begins to pile up the similes, comparing an object to multiple other objects, there’s going to be trouble. Multiple similes signify instability. An emotional shift is likely to take place, a disappearance or a metamorphosis. What we get in the second part of 'The Meadow Mouse' is a disappearance."
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