What Sparks Poetry:
Jennifer Kronovet on Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony
"'Cruelty and beauty—how do they coexist?' Don Mee Choi asks this question in the middle of her book DMZ Colony. To say that she answers that question is not quite right. What Choi does is harder: she gives us new ways to think it through—she creates a vocabulary, syntax, multiple codes, maps, and sounds so that we can enter specific devastations, see how they weave, like all colonial disasters, backward and forward in time." |
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How Gwendolyn Brooks Shapes Poetry in Chicago
"More than two decades after her death at the age of 83, Brooks continues to exert influence on a younger generation of poets and writers. At the height of her career, she abandoned her big-time publisher Harper & Row and chose to work exclusively with Black-owned presses, including the then-fledgling Chicago publisher Third World Press. This move helped her deepen her ties with younger Black writers and with the city’s South Side."
via WBEZ |
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