Happy New Year from Poetry Daily
Many thanks indeed to all our readers, whose passion for poetry inspires us, and to all our generous donors, without whose support we could not continue. We look forward to sharing the very best contemporary poetry with you in 2022. |
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Poetic Elegies Make Space for Pandemic Grief
"In a pandemic, when a flood of statistics threatens to swallow the singularity of every death, contemporary elegies—about the dead, for the dead, in place of the dead—offer us new ways for our grief to work its way past silence. Elegy performs an essential caretaking, both intimate and public, of our dead. Poetry is a labor of survival."
via THE WASHINGTON POST |
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Herd on Emily Dickinson's [I Dwell in Possibility —]
"The poem’s possibilities are many. You feel them at every turn; in every space held open by her signature dash. The windows are numerous in this house because the poem’s meanings shift, each word opened to the range of its definitions. When she occupies in the final stanza–when she states her 'occupation'– we see her in her self-appointed role as maker of poems." |
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