Yi Won (translated from the Korean by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello & E.J. Koh)
Plugs are unthreading
from every part of my body
suspended like umbilical cords
from the journal
Waxwing
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 25, 2019
Ruth Daniell
The Grimm brothers grew up across the street
in a half-timbered magistrate's house:
studying Greek and Latin, collecting eggs,
- April 24, 2019
Dorsey Craft
Jane, watch me close this time, the scarlet
folds of this cape, how the drapes velvet
a man, crush his musk to dandelions and black his lashes to strings of silk.
- April 23, 2019
John McCarthy
I was too young to call him a friend, but...
- April 22, 2019
Emily Dickinson
Water, is taught by thirst.
Land—by the Oceans passed.
Transport—by throe—
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