I wrote this poem while emerging from a long sad spell, during a season where I found myself re-encountering tenderness in rain, clogs, alphabet songs and, yes, Sally Rooney's novels. This is a poem to honor the feeling of making (and re-making) space. A poem to honor all textures of joy, however tiny.
Carlina Duan on "Possible" |
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"Louise Gluck’s First Collection Since Her Nobel"
"The poems are elegiac, brooding and death-obsessed, haunted by intimations of mortality, by ghosts facing backward with regret and forward with trepidation. It is an end-of-life book, where the life in question could be anyone's: the poet's, the reader's, the planet's."
via THE WASHINGTON POST |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Alyse Knorr On John Keats' "Bright Star"
"I loved picturing the star in the poem watching the waves clean the shores and the snow graze the mountaintops. I loved how the first half of the poem painted a picture by negation, like a puzzle, and how it wrenched me from the cold, lonely reaches of outer space down to the grounded, intimate moment of laying one's head on a lover's breast and hearing the quiet of her breathing: all made equally sacred in the poem's grand equation." |
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18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 10-15, 2022
We are pledged to create an extraordinary week of virtual poetry workshops and events for you in the safety of your home.
Workshop Faculty: Kim Addonizio, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Chard deNiord, Mark Doty, Yona Harvey, John Murillo, Matthew Olzmann and Diane Seuss. One-On-One Conferences with Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis Dunn, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Angela Narciso Torres. A special Craft Talk by Kwame Dawes. Special Guest Poet: Yusef Komunyakaa. Poet-at-Large: Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Apply by November 15! |
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