Lucille Clifton
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
from the book
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 /
BOA Editions
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 7, 2020
Kiki Petrosino
...In my student's
poem, the house stands for womanhood, pain coiled
in the drywall.
- July 6, 2020
Elizabeth Bishop
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat
- July 5, 2020
Valerie Duff
Birds crack seeds
on the other side of your glass
door. The body, blind, curves
its hedge down paths.
- July 4, 2020
Luke Patterson
eat biscuits wait for the wind to calm
sheepish hawks circle thermal pockets
birdsong warms the valley lips
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