Abigail Chabitnoy
Did you read to your mother?
Did you read to your dog, until you could pronounce the words properly?
Did you eat Hershey's Chocolate toast sandwiches with your father?
from the book
How to Dress a Fish /
Wesleyan University Press
What Sparks Poetry is a new, serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In the first series, The Poems of Others, our editors pay homage to the poems that led them to write.
- April 20, 2019
Meriwether Clarke
At the museum, I count
the number of times the Virgin Mary
went to heaven.
- April 19, 2019
Chelsea Dingman
Dear body of my body.
Dear fluid-breathing fauna.
- April 18, 2019
A.E. Stallings
What tales we tell what talesWhat ails?
About the girls gone quietYet
- April 17, 2019
Hazem Fahmy
Arya asks what's east
of Westeros, and I think of blown out candles,
wax-caked calloused hands...
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