What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Kleber-Diggs on Sun Yung Shin's The Wet Hex
"Here’s what I didn’t even actually notice until I’d completed both laps through The Wet Hex—at a certain point I put my pencil down. I fell away from concern for craft and entered the poet’s world. For quite a while there, I forgot to think and felt my way through instead—guided by an expert, open." |
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Teen Poet from Los Angeles Ignites Change
15-year-old Sierra Leone Anderson wants readers of her poem, "For Uvalde," to understand the impact of gun violence. "If anyone reads this poem, whether they're youth, or they're an educator, whether they're not, I really want them to be afraid....I really want them to be scared of how kids are living now, of how we've lived for a very long time. And then I want them to actually do something about it."
via ABC7 |
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