The 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards
Elisa Gonzalez and Charleen McClure are the poetry recipients of this year's Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards, which recognize emerging women writers of exceptional promise. "Our 2020 award winners are reframing and revisioning our world and bringing it into focus in important and inventive ways. Their work is surprising, inspiring, challenging, and deeply personal."
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What Sparks Poetry:
J. Michael Martinez on "The Wake of Maria de Jesus Martinez"
“'The Wake of Maria De Jesus Martinez' was one attempt to write, as form, a casta-like poem, where each section of the lyric was itself of a different time and space, yet, linked through repeating phrases. As the lyric progressed, the work began to be less 'pictorial' and relied more and more on sound: the emotional labor of the poem was performed/rendered through its music." |
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