Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith
Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
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...moreThe individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
...moreKate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.
...moreRoberto Carlos Garcia discusses his third poetry collection, [ELEGIES].
...moreMarci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
...moreVictoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
...moreAfter all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.
...moreI wonder if in absence I will now come to conflate him with the character I’ve drawn. Or with the character I’m drawing now.
...moreBritish-Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright Fred D’Aguiar discusses the influence of Jonestown on his work, writing in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, and the need to pay attention when tragedy comes to your door.
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