Poetry@Tech, Detainee Allies, and Poetry International are delighted to share the results of the Dignity Not Detention Prize. When we began this project, we had no idea how widely it would reach into the world: poets from three continents sent work for consideration. The winners, runners-up, and finalists include a broad range of poets: some …
Winners of the #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prizes 2019 Read More »
Dana Roeser’s fourth book, All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, won the Wilder Prize at Two Sylvias Press and was published in September 2019. She is also the author of The Theme of Tonight’s Party Has Been Changed, recipient of the Juniper Prize, as well as Beautiful Motion and In the Truth Room, both winners of …
Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability in early 2018 (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many e-mails, indicating much interest. There were also numerous requests to continue this work. Our response was to start a series of individual interviews with poets exploring Deaf and …
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CREATION MYTH CREATION MYTH In the beginning there was no way to say in the beginning.There was only the ah! of those with lice and itches who were happystartled by the seemingly miraculous growth of their fingernails, underscored in dirt. In the beginning could only be mortared together by someone who had felt …
Ellen Doré Watson is the author is five poetry books, including pray me stay eager, published in 2018. She is also a well-known translator, most notably from the Portuguese of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado, for which she received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other honors. Watson’s work has appeared widely, from The …
I love how poems of the spirit insist on what is perennial in us, beyond the immediate social and political contexts we find ourselves in. As Kwame Dawes writes in a new poem included here, “The carrier of wood . . . will walk daily to the / shrine no matter who sits on the …
Poems of the Spirit: a selection of poems, edited by Luke Hankins Read More »
David Baker was born in Maine in 1954 and spent his childhood in Missouri. He received PhD from the University of Utah and has won fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently a Professor of English and the Thomas B. Fordham Chair …
Tina Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her family. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry—including Half-Lit Houses, a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award—and coeditor of the seminal anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. …
On Negotiating Time and Place: A Conversation with Karen Head on her forthcoming fifth book of poetry, Lost on Purpose, Iris Press, 2019 Karen Head’s new collection of poems, Lost on Purpose, is both a powerful meditation on the poetics of memory and travel–and an unforgettable sequence of love lyrics. The poems are playful, memorable, …
RIFT ZONE, Taylor’s third book, is due out in 2020 from Red Hen Press. Her poems trace literal and metaphoric fault lines between past and present; childhood and adulthood; what is and what was. Circling an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault, these poems include redwood trees, hummingbirds, buried streams, and the otherworldy cries of new babies. They are also records of …
“Between Risk and Refuge”: a review of A Cry in the Snow and other poemsby Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Luke Hankins by José Angel Araguz Reading Stella Vinitchi Radulescu’s poems originally written in French translated into English drives home the dual privilege and responsibility that comes with the work of translation. In …
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When one considers the position of a lyric poet today, it is a strange time. On one side, there is the overwhelming popularity of the narrative mode in contemporary poetry, at least in the mainstream culture. On the other side, the lyric poems that do seem to be published seem to favor the more obscure …
Jacquelyn Pope Portfolio: Six Poems and a Conversation Read More »
Ecopoetics: a Column First, consider this poem: Surprise by Michael Radich That plastic bug, thrust close, gave our little girl a startled fright! A busker ends his drumming; a burst of applauding wings flaps the pigeons to the sky. A butterfly, red leather gored by a lepidopterizing chopstick, lights upon her black twist hair. That …
Atlanta-based poet and novelist Collin Kelley’s third full-length collection, Midnight in a Perfect World, threads us into a journey of navigating the hungers of love and desire. Borrowing its title from DJ Shadow’s trip-hop masterpiece, the collection is filled with longing—for connection and for geography—against the backdrop of America and London. Along the way we …
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Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability in early 2018 (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many e-mails, indicating much interest. There were also numerous requests to continue this work. Our response was to start a series of individual interviews with poets exploring Deaf poetics. The …
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Cyrus Cassells’ six books are The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses,The Crossed-Out Swastika, and The Gospel according to Wild Indigo. His book of Catalan translations, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas,is due from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in April 2019. …
Born in 1944, Francesc Parcerisas, the author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including Still Life with Children, Triumph of the Present,and The Golden Age, is considered the premier Catalan poet of his generation—a “miracle generation” of poets who came of age as Franco’s public banning of the Catalan language came to an end. He is …
Chapbook: Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, translated by Cyrus Cassells Read More »
FORGIVE THE BODY THIS FAILURE Blas Falconer (Four Way Books, 2018) Much has been written about the necessity and even the benefits of learning how to fail. Tragedy in the classic sense is a master class on failure, the failure of the mind to overcome what has been ordained either by God or the State …
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BIRNAM WOOD El Bosque de Birnam by José Manuel Cardona Tr. by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-912561-18-6 The late José Manuel Cardona, star poet of Ibiza, scholar, translator and literary victim of Franco, has died only very recently and his death has robbed Europe of one of its last links with a …
Poetry of Exile: Thomas McCarthy on José Manuel Cardona Read More »
The Heart’s Year Le coeur a ses saisons… May The treetops dance to a lively air. The crows are out, looking for trouble. The wind ambushes your loosened hair. June The season is unkind to the dark lady. All those bright hours hide the moon …