This poem is a part of my forthcoming collection 40 WEEKS, available for preorder with YesYes Books. I wrote a poem for each week of pregnancy with my second child, playing with the fruits and vegetables the baby’s size is compared to weekly. While at times I take inspiration from the objects themselves, the poems aim to highlight the problematic aspects of such comparisons and focus instead on societal taboos of the pregnant body and our continued cultural misrepresentation of, and discomfort with, the more unfiltered sides of motherhood.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach on "Week 33: Pineapple" |
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"On John Keene's Punks"
"Celebrations of the social and erotic lives of queer and Black people; elegies for those lost to AIDS and anti-LGBTQ+ violence; splicings of poetics theory; found-text fragments arranged into grids; and persona poems from the perspective of Black historical figures (some famous, some known only to themselves) are all featured in its pages. Punks’s capaciousness makes it the latest iteration of Keene’s ever-expanding experimental sensibility."
via CHICAGO REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nik De Dominic on Teaching Poetry inside Prisons
"I ask students to define a community they’re members of and to list all the language that’s particular to that community and then write litanies, long poetic lists. Students often draw from previous lives. Jobs. Or from the prison itself. The prison then becomes an object of study, the student’s place within it, and through this study, the prison is a site for critique. This is not to say that students aren’t already critiquing prison; it’s that now that critique has value in this space, the classroom." |
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