Justyna Bargielska (translated from the Polish by Maria Jastrzębska)
Do you know what our odds are? Zero.
But I've learnt to play for time
from the book
The Great Plan B /
Smokestack Books
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.
- May 23, 2019
Danielle Weeks
When a girl in third grade stopped coming to school, we said she moved to Antarctica, or a witch turned her into a bird, or she swallowed too big of a marble and died.
- May 21, 2019
Dean Young
The flashlight my sister swept
across the heavens got no response
either.
- May 20, 2019
Aleksandr Blok (translated from the Russian by Dimitri Obolensky)
Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist's shop, a meaningless and dim light.
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