Maria Dylan Himmelman
Tomorrow always packs a fresh challenge in her pocketbook
and prayer is rarely answered by the party you are calling
Listen to someone who has been around awhile
after all, it takes a hundred-year drought
to expose the remains of a shipwreck
Something else I want you to know—
sawfish have lips as luscious as a mango
and it's almost always a mercy to be
denied the things you want most
I remember after the war
women drew lines down the backs
of their legs, then went into the street
and kissed perfect strangers
God I hope that doesn't happen again
No shoes on the couch. Peels in the trash
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Color photograph of 2024 Grffin Poetry Prize winners
"Canadians Sweep the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards"

"George McWhirter wins $78,000 for the international prize for his translation of Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, written in Spanish by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis (New Directions Publishing). The international prize of C$130,000 is shared 60% to the translator, 40% to the original author; each of the other finalists receive C$10,000....Judges Albert F. Moritz (Canada), Jan Wagner (Germany), and Anne Waldman (USA) each read 592 books of poetry, including 49 translations from 22 languages, submitted by 235 publishers from 14 different countries."

viaGRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
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Orchid Tierney on "a field guide to future flora"


"however distributed vegetal cognition is, plants are nonetheless remarkable sensing and sensate beings, who invite speculation as to who we—the weirdos of this world—are if we are not already communal thinkers. so: to look upon a plant with an appreciation that its own mind is radically different is a terse exercise in the acceptance of its unknowability."
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