National Poetry Month Day 13: Sy Hoahwah
Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreA review of BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN, a bilingual poetry collection from Achy Obejas available now from Beacon Press.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...more“The distances are staggering. It could take you an hour to drive to a spot on the edge of the horizon, yet that spot feels like it’s just within reach,” Barry writes. “This is what it means to live on the steppe. There are no walls between you and nature. You are nature.”
...moreNo word is wasted. No story is told in vain.
...moreReyna Grande is the author of several books, including the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (Atria, 2012) and the sequel, A Dream Called Home, released in 2018. Her latest novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory is a sweeping historical saga set in the1840s that follows Ximena, a Mexican army nurse and John Riley, an Irish-immigrant […]
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreThe benign lipoma floated in a small jar that Abundio had set on his nightstand when he came back from the doctor’s office. At first, when Dr. Reyes had asked him if he would like to bring it home, Abundio had laughed in the belief that this was nothing more than obtuse doctor humor. But Dr. Reyes did not smile and waited for a response to her question. So, Abundio said: “Sure.”
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreThe works . . . interrogate time in text through myriad forms, playing with and revealing its machinations all through inventive means. Like the waves and fragments of memory, many of them swerve outside the lines of stiff categorization.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreWe can try to perform our inner lives, but we can’t actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all love the whiff of authenticity, and the more mediated our culture feels, the more we crave it, but we can’t actually give it away. We cannot actually break through the barrier of our individual aloneness.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreThen there is the bathroom issue. My beloved is like me, like you, like anyone. Sometimes a person has to go.
...moreThe aestheticization of violence in literature, like other representations, can be deceiving.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...morePoetry allows me to say the thing without a million conjectures. It leaves a lot of space and allows words to resonate and connect without me having to take you there . . . because of the conventions of poetry, I can say things that are understood as a gate to the truth.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...moreCelebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
...morePresent a copy of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Whoever puts it in their purse is the woman. Whoever pulls their own copy out of their pocket is Gertrude Stein.
...moreAre these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?
...moreThat I find these characters sympathetic, that I wish them whole while assuming they will never be: This is the beauty and frustration MacKenzie has so elegantly combined. It is easy to hate these men, but I have loved them.
...moreWhen she was seven years old, Lottie killed her first rattlesnake. As long as she could remember, her grandfather had instilled in her that The Good Californian killed the rattlesnake, spared those behind him the danger of snakebite, the venom sapped from their future. She thought it was allegory until she came face-to-Western-face with a Mojave rattlesnake in the scrub out by the foothills.
...moreYou’ll really love this book if you have the opinion that reality is weird. And if you think, like me, that the fact that so many people believe that there’s even a steady thing that we could call reality is fucking insane. If that’s who you are, this book is definitely for you.
...moreYou’ll look back and you’ll think the scars seem almost invisible, like maybe they’ll be gone one day. But then you’ll realize you’re just looking at the smaller ones, and yes, the bigger one is still right there.
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