"What can I do with this feeling?" was snatched from “Hooked On Your Love,” a tune penned by Curtis Mayfield and sung by Aretha Franklin on "Sparkle," her 1976 soundtrack album. I wanted to write a poem about how Adele and I listen to each other; music learns us. The stanzas are deliberately overwrought to match Adele’s nuance. I await her next numbered opus.
Rodney Terich Leonard on "What can I do with this feeling?" |
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"Windows on the World: Pandemic Poems"
"Six of the UK’s best poets reveal exclusive new work and reflect on the last year, losing relatives, long-distance relationships and ‘artistic claustrophobia.’" For Jay Bernard, "If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is: drop the perfectionism, because it’s not working for you, or for me."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rion Amilcar Scott on Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
"I often think about the precision in Hayden's language. The words that take on the work of casting several meanings. 'What did I know, what did I know/of love’s austere and lonely offices?' I know all the words he used, but in this formation, with the repetition, the odd use of the word 'offices' and its proximity to the words 'austere' and 'lonely,' the words seem alien and strange in the best way." |
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