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I don’t believe we come to nor travel through poetry alone . . . Rather than “social” I would instead encourage the word “communal”; the former sounds a little more performative and exclusive to my ear than does the latter, which sounds more like an invitation.
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Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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Kelli Russell Agodon discusses her new collection, DIALOGUES WITH RISING TIDES.
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Kayleb Rae Candrilli discusses their new poetry collection, WATER I WON’T TOUCH.
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Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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A loss is a loss. Neither the circle nor the form can be completed.
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“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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See how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
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What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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Poet Marvin Bell discusses his now-famous love poem, “To Dorothy,” and the woman who inspired it.
...moreAs a poet I get it: talking about “literary infrastructure” is boring. Who wouldn’t rather talk about poets, poems, or aesthetic movements? When we start hearing a lot about the organizations dedicated to supporting authors, presses, and readings rather than the people making literature it probably means those organizations are threatened. Well, welcome to 2017! […]
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Maybe my faith that the profoundest feeling we’re offered by art that really hits us deep in is a setting free, a series of screens or horizons obliterated somehow lovingly.
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Donna Spruijt-Metz reviews Richard Siken’s War of the Foxes today in Rumpus Poetry.
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