Joyelle McSweeney Wins 2022 Shelley Memorial Award
In his citation for the award, which celebrates poetic genius, Calvin Bedient writes that, "Toxicon tightens up formally against invasive things, everything toxic, corrupting, spoiling, devastating. Writing like a champion boxer, with clean, sharp jabs, is what gets you through. The force of her lines, her imagination’s daring, her phrasing’s shuddering vigor, are exhilarating."
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What Sparks Poetry:
CAConrad (THE OPEN ROAD) on Ecopoetry Now
"Remember a few years ago, I asked you to cut my arm with your bowie knife, so I could write a poem while observing my cells in their 27-day repair cycle? There is something special about having the body be part of the writing experience, and with these birds and animals in the desert, each one is assigned a spot on my body....Locating an animal on myself is an incredible way to enter the writing." |
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