"Turn and Live" was written for the Royal Society of Literature "Windrush 75 In Verse" R.A.P. Party (2023), commemorating twentieth-century Caribbean people "returning" by invitation to their imperial homeland, the UK. The poem references Kamau Brathwaite, and my parents’ 1950s London life. The title, a quotation from the book of Ezekiel, is a hat-tip to the Prior of Blackfriars Cambridge (UK)’s preaching in August 2022. "Turn" can also mean "repent."
Anthony Vahni Capildeo on "Turn and Live" |
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Writing from Atrocity to Healing
Multi-Genre Virtual Workshop
This four-session virtual workshop will provide poets and writers of all levels, genres, and backgrounds with the tools to write from their experiences with atrocity, the traumas produced by atrocity, and the healing (personally, communally, nationally) your words can make of it. Featured Speakers include Ellen Bass, Jacqueline Osherow, Joy Ladin, Geoffrey Philp, Jehanne Dubrow, Sam Fleischacker, and Mehnaz Afridi. Click here for Full details and registration information. |
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John Milton Mourned a Revolution Betrayed
"Milton wrote Paradise Lost at a dark time in his own life. Halfway through, the poet tells the reader that he is 'In Darkness compassed round.' Milton had championed the democratic republic set up after the English Civil War and the execution of the king. But it had failed, and in 1660 the monarchy had returned. Milton was imprisoned and then fined. Not only that: he had gone blind, and lost his wife and infant son to illness. In that dark time, he achieved something extraordinary."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Mary-Alice Daniel on Object Lessons
"Science is one language articulating the esoteric fabric of spacetime. Verse is another valence. Astrophysics and poetry pair prettily. Both concern themselves with the behavior and spectacle of celestial bodies; with the margins of massive matters alongside the infinitesimal; the inconceivable infinite. Dreamers in the two disciplines speculate alternate & extra dimensions. We enlist anomaly. We trouble in stasis. We peer into—across—the reality tunnel: the entangled expanse between what you see and I perceive." |
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