This poem started as an ode to growing older and my terrible memory. I forget books immediately after reading them, random facts, various skills, people I just met, a startingly amount of my own life. It's bad. So bad in fact, that I can't remember much else about writing this poem.
Gary Jackson on "The Body You Remember" |
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Latino Youth Use Poetry to Capture Denver's Gentrifying Northside
"Hernández assigned the 30 students in his 'Latinx Leadership' class to walk their Northside neighborhood, photograph what spoke to them and write a poem to accompany their favorite picture. Hernández and his students compiled the images and poems into a book—pages created in Google Slides and stapled together—called 'Our Sacred Community.'"
via THE DENVER POST |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Aaron Anstett on James Wright's "Eisenhower’s Visit to Franco, 1959"
"This poem, at once narrative, lyrical, and political, led me to more James Wright poems and to Spanish poets beyond Machado, particularly in the bilingual anthology Roots and Wings, which I discovered in my high school library along with the still-powerful Hayden Carruth anthology, The Voice That Is Great Within Us. From there followed a continuing lifetime of delight, bafflement, and discovery in poems." |
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