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Enemy Slayer teaches the first horse laws to Lipans

Margo Tamez

Protector, Enemy Slayer, went to the stronghold place you know this today as the Guadalupe Mountains, over there.

from the book FATHER | GENOCIDE / Turtle Point Press

Report: "After 18 months of detention under Sri Lanka's draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act, Muslim poet Ahnaf Jazeem, was brought before the High Court in Puttalam on Monday."
(Tamil Guardian)
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https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/after-18-months-muslim-poet-ahnaf-jazeem-brought-high-court

Interview: "Because I came up as this Latina poet, I felt a lot of pressure to be this person that I wasn't or [to write] poetry that I didn't necessarily want to do. You know, I kind of just wanted to write horror stories."
(NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1048525863/in-dreaming-of-you-poet-melissa-lozada-oliva-reimagines-selenas-legacy

Report: "Ai-Da, who was built over two years by a team of programmers, roboticists, art experts and psychologists, has previously had solo exhibitions at Oxford and the Design Museum in London..."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/26/robot-artist-to-perform-ai-generated-poetry-in-response-to-dante

Review: "Believing in the power of location to act as a source of important instructions is a condition of being transformed."
(Poetry Northwest)
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https://www.poetrynw.org/a-condition-of-being-transformed-lessons-of-place-in-devon-walker-figueroas-philomath/

Announcement: The Vancouver poet Lise Gaston has won the CBC Poetry Prize for her collection 'James.'
(CBC)
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https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/vancouver-poet-lise-gaston-wins-2021-cbc-poetry-prize-1.6251329

What Sparks Poetry

The Poems of Others

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.

In the series The Poems of Others, we’ve invited poets to pay homage to the poems that led them to write.

Each essay is accompanied by a writing prompt based on an observation about the poem.

This week's issue: Devon Walker-Figueroa on Jorie Graham’s “Salmon”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

November 27, 2021

Byline, Be Sky

Alina Stefanescu

I meet the birds on their terrain, the gray of. Chimney swifts smudged, sifted from clouds like feathered cinders, all is blurred or wisps of smoke, an attendance.

November 26, 2021

quietude, gaped earth, substantial loss

Asiya Wadud

the ferries encumber their own weight. they pass each other at close range. the unlikely vessels transmit their cargo. all the bodies carry on.

November 25, 2021

Vulning Pelican: Triple Elegy

Mihaela Moscaliuc

I waddle among pelicans of grief. They waddle through me, our throat sacs stapled shut. I stir the third soup, lovage and thirteen bean . . .

November 24, 2021

Meditation on the Worth of Anything

Cynthia Dewi Oka

A tall man wipes ashes from his lips. “I’ll pay you,” he says. “If you’re worthy.” From the lamp of his skull, a steeple rises. Roaches seek warmth in the dead bells, while cherry blossoms burst their green corsets.

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