Last Chance to Carry Poetry Daily
National Poetry Month 2024 is over, and our inaugural run of Poetry Daily totes is nearly gone. But this weekend you can still buy our black tote, featuring a specially commissioned illustration of a Russian Blue cat reading on a yellow Poetry Daily rug. |
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"Helen Vendler’s Generous Mind"
"Vendler, who died last week, at ninety, served as The New Yorker’s poetry critic from 1978 to 1996, and the temptation, as always in the wake of extraordinary lives, is to install her promptly on the pantheon, with a likeness made in chilly stone. There is no exaggeration in calling her the most influential American poetry scholar of the past fifty years."
via THE NEW YORKER |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lindsay Turner on "Forms of Displeasure"
"In The Upstate, I was trying to connect the regional experience of a place, a certain corner of Southern Appalachia, with the bigger structural issues of America of 2016-2020, roughly, and of the world. I was trying to do this in poems because it’s also what I was trying to do in real life, struggling against the claustrophobia of depression and anxiety as well as of certain region-based patterns of writing and thinking." |
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