Patrick Phillips
Praised be friends. Praise enemies.
Praise the dark above.


Praise hangovers. Praise cigarettes.
The vulture and the dove.


Praise all music. Praise the harp.
And the amplifier's buzz.


Praise the days we'd live forever.
And loneliness. And love.


Praise even death, or at least the dying,
who taught us how to live.


Praise you, someday, reading this.
Praise light. Praise the wind.
from the book SONG OF THE CLOSING DOORS / Penguin Random House
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Griffin Poetry Prize Longlist Announced

"Judges Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia), Gregory Scofield (Canada), and Natasha Trethewey (USA) each read 602 books of poetry, including 54 translations from 20 languages, submitted by 229 publishers from 20 different countries....The five shortlisted books will be announced on Wednesday, April 19, 2023."

via THE GRIFFIN TRUST FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY
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"But how do we live with our knowledge and the emotional cloud of fear, guilt, anger, grief, and helplessness, a cloud that surrounds us, each of us alone, and all of us together? That cloud has become intrinsic to my ecopoetical work. Burdened with the beauty and loss and malicious awfulness ahead, weighted with the anxiety that hits whenever a winter day dawns without frost on the ground or another 'unprecedented' downpour rings in the gutter, how do I live?"
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