At the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2019, Vievee Francis charged me to go write something ferocious and ugly—something that wouldn't contort in order to please or impress others. "The Dog" is what I wrote that day.
Gabrielle Bates on "The Dog" |
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"How Poetry Helped Me Love My Absent Father"
"He remembers his father as being 'very charismatic and very funny,' someone he would always look forward to seeing. 'It would be sort of like this hero figure coming back out of the desert.' When Joseph’s father died in 2017, he began to think of writing a selection of sonnets for him, and the result—after bending the form slightly to make the poems more musical—is Sonnets for Albert.
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Andrew Zawacki on Sébastien Smirou's "The Lion"
"The orthodox part of the evening once completed, we turned to our current project—very much under construction—namely, the English translation of Sébastien’s sophomore book, a bestiary titled Beau voir....The plan was Sébastien’s, inspired tangentially by the so-called 'torture test' that Olivier Cadiot and Pierre Alferi had devised, which involved translating Robert Duncan’s falconer-mother back and forth between English and French, so the original would bloom anew through its successive degradations." |
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