I used to think if you tracked something carefully enough, maybe part of it would remain—footprints, echoes, a way forward. Maybe tracking is a kind of disappearance, a way of listening to what has already moved beyond reach. Maybe the mind hunts not to find, but to stay in the motion of what was never meant to stay.
Bret Shepard on "Evening Traffic" |
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The 12th Annual Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference
June 15 to 21, 2025
Some spots still available in poetry!
Work with our award-winning faculty in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains for a week of inspiring workshops, lectures, classes, and readings. Financial aid is available. Rolling admissions through February 14th or until spots fill. |
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"Massachusetts Poet Laureate Position Created by Governor"
"On Monday, February 3, Governor Maura Healey signed an Executive Order creating the position of Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Executive Order adopts much of the language of a bill filed years ago by former State Representative Denise Provost. Provost’s work was recognized by Governor Healey at Monday’s celebratory signing."
viaTHE SOMERVILLE TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry: Farid Matuk on Language as Form
"I wanted this work to be accountable, to not settle for easy truisms about ambiguity or a lack of closure being liberatory or even interesting. I wanted, more than I had before, to risk being right or wrong or foolish or earnest or stylized. I don't know who to face, but in wanting to be accountable the poems call—a bit desperately, really—to readers I can't yet see. My ambition was to create across each poem and again across the book a complex of feelings, sometimes contradictory feelings, that would get at what's irreconcilable about the real." |
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