After the Korean War, Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. An English newspaper once wrote, "Expecting democracy in Korea is like hoping for roses to bloom in a trash can." This was the world of my childhood—harsh, but not without hope. Neighborhood kids were close, sharing what little we had. Yet when we crossed into other kids' territory, fights broke out. These battles mirrored the adults’ war, teaching us, even as children, how deeply conflict shaped our lives.
Hee-June Choi on "Kids Running After a Car" |
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"A Donne for Our Times: On Deed by torrin a. greathouse"
“Not only is there the comradery of a walk that says the same thing about another’s body as yours says about your own, but this can create a world—even if it is only a world of two—within which the only meaning that matters is one of your own creation. This is a world carved out within the broader world in which an ER visit is a date and medications are there for you when saints aren’t. greathouse’s body and poetic forms are chimeras, which at one point they define as 'the best parts of / other animals sewn together,' and through this SICK4SICK relationship they have also made their world a chimera.”
via THE RUMPUS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Riggs on Language as Form
"I determined each poem would be 47 lines, and the lines do not need to be connected to ones before or after, though they could be. There would be 47 poems. The name of each poem is the date it was written. To be in time, in the calendar, to have a project that is a book that is a series. To feel in the momentum of it. To slant into dream, to invite that we survive through the tilt and whir of connecting synapses." |
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