Danielle Vogel
It began before I could speak, when speech was a thing that happened to me.
from the book
Edges & Fray /
Wesleyan University Press
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In our first series, The Poems of Others, we invited our editors to pay homage to the poems that led them to write. The Poems of Others II is a reprise of that series, opening the invitation to twenty-four poets from among our readers.
- July 10, 2020
Kimiko Hahn
In the Father's shadowy hoard
pillows belch feathers across
mattress and floors:
what was an oriental rug, now
a carpet of scat, gone-astray socks...
- July 9, 2020
Alejandra Pizarnik (translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Rossi)
my heart
opens the window
life
here I am
- July 8, 2020
Lucille Clifton
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
- July 7, 2020
Kiki Petrosino
...In my student's
poem, the house stands for womanhood, pain coiled
in the drywall.
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