They were forest-dreaming
as the current took me in its arms
and whispered encouragement.
Pascale Petit
from the journal
Poetry London
In our series Life in Public, we ask our writers to examine how poetry speaks to different aspects of public experience. What does it mean to say that a poet is, as C. D. Wright has put it, “one with others”? What is poetry’s place in the public sphere today, of all times? How has life in that sphere been expressed in poems? Is all published poetry public speech? What is a private poem? What is occasional poetry? What is political poetry?
- April 1, 2025
Patrycja Humienik
Great Polish poets were born in cities that no longer belong to Poland.
Now Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. My people claim the imagined place.
- March 29, 2025
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
Tejida, Tejido, Tejide
all genders woven.
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