Becoming a parent, like other major life changes, involves acquiring new vocabularies. When my daughter was a newborn, I learned and loved the phrase “night noises.” And the poem started there. The title came a little later, with the distinct realization that I had lost any real recollection of myself, my life, and the world before Esmée's birth, before her arrival.
Lee Peterson "I Begin to Forget the World Without Her" |
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Academy of American Poets Receives Its Largest-Ever Donation
"On Wednesday, the Mellon Foundation announced it would top that [$4.5 million] grant with an additional $5.7 million to support both the Poet Laureates and the Poetry Coalition, a national alliance of more than 30 organizations working together to promote poetry."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Shook on Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi's "Asylum Papers"
"Working closely with Saddiq, we developed an intimate process of co-translation across continents. Starting with Bryar’s initial cribs, we returned to the Arabic together, experimenting and reworking the transfer of some poems’ complicated syntax into English and unpacking the poems’ many allusions. Because of our close relationship with Saddiq, we were able both to clarify imagery specific to the Sudanese context and to seek his approval for some of the bolder leaps we hoped would make his poetry sing in English as it does in Arabic." |
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