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Grasp

Sara Ryan

I learn the word for willow tree. I learn the word for howl and keep it in my throat. the word for wolf curls underneath my tongue. I have studied pain this way—

from the journal Thrush Poetry Journal

Interview: Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE, which uses fragments of borrowed text and a variety of received forms to render the many violences of war, language, and power. (The Rumpus)
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https://therumpus.net/2019/11/the-rumpus-interview-with-linda-bierds/

Essay: "The question, even now, is whether this country is ready for Whitman, open to his 'way of being' when we need it most."
—Martín Espada (Poetry Magazine)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/151134/filthy-presidentiad-walt-whitman-in-the-age-of-trump

Essay: "David Jones was a self-taught modernist with an allegiance to medieval romance and Celtic art, a Londoner who was out of place in London, a Welshman who didn’t speak Welsh."
—Paul Keegan (London Review of Books)
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n21/paul-keegan/mulishness

Column: Carol Rumens discusses Emily Berry's poem, 'Drunken Bellarmine.'

"The poem, like much of the collection, logs the vertiginous and rocky inner voyage of a speaker in extremis after the loss of their mother." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/nov/11/poem-of-the-week-drunken-bellarmine-by-emily-berry

Profile: "Editing can really broaden your aesthetic. Before, I always read poetry more selfishly...I would read poets who helped me write my own poems." —Vijay Seshadri (NPR)
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https://t.co/f9VjIvhjx4

What Sparks Poetry

The Poems of Others II

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In the newest series, The Poems of Others II, twenty-four poets pay homage to the poems that led them to write.

This week's issue: Brian Barker on Norman Dubie’s “Ars Poetica”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

November 11, 2019

Ars Poetica

Norman Dubie

It is almost polio season. The girls From the cigarette factories in Massachusetts Are still visiting the northern beaches. At midnight, the milky rubbers In the breakers are like a familiar invasion Of sea life.

November 10, 2019

Trash

Joshua Bennett

I have half my father's face & not a measure of his flair for the dramatic. Never once have I prayed & had another man's wife wail in return.

November 9, 2019

Self-Portrait as a Series of Bluffs

Chris Hayes

Bluff where I lost my keys, my nerve; bluff I carry like a nail in the roof of my mouth; bluff that says This is all I want.

November 8, 2019

[a mile in smog and a mile in fresh air]

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

i'm dreaming of bears scaling cityscapes and my old house on fire. i am wax paper beneath your breath.

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