My mother grew up with her father telling her that the cows would kneel in the barn on Christmas Eve. I have always felt that story had some of the true Christmas magic in it and then grew up to love that Thomas Hardy poem—"The Oxen"—and that beautiful ending about how the narrator is still "Hoping it might be so."
Annie Woodford on "Old Christmas" |
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"Ten Writers on Writing Advice: 2023"
"As 2023 draws to a close, we share some of our favorite responses this year to the question that speaks directly to our desire for some guidance through the often-dark labyrinth of the literary life: What's the best piece of writing advice you've ever received?"
via POETS & WRITERS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
J. Michael Martinez on Reading Prose
"I wanted to understand its syntactic logic of worlding, and, so, I mirrored Angello's process: in my work, I chose to meditate, word by word, on the chorus of Ritchie Valens' 'We Belong Together.' The prose poem sequence that emerged became a structuring force for the book as a whole; the sequence's prose ruminations on temporality, the body, and love, spread out across the book, acted as scaffolds to Tarta Americana's overarching themes." |
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