I’m most proud of the way the content of this poem informs the structure. I think for a lot of writers, it can be hard to incorporate modern technology into poems in a way that feels natural. In this poem in particular, it was important to me that the poem not only allude to the overwhelming doom-scrolling of Twitter, but that the poem nearly becomes the act itself.
Taylor Byas on "My Twitter Feed Becomes Too Much" |
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Poem of the Week: "I guess it was my destiny to live so long"
Carol Rumens delves into June Jordan's defiant response to terminal cancer. "Its originality of style lies in the combination of frankness about the realities of terminal cancer with the vitality of a chant-like rhythmic structure. The form ultimately opens up and allows the poet to fight back."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on Taylor Johnson's Inheritance
"Restless, improvisatory, Johnson favors no single subject matter or mode. They are a poet of theory and memory, of essay and anecdote, of ode and aubade, of self-portraiture and landscape, of deconstruction and sex. Their poems are rangy in form–prose, erasure, projective, epistolary, ekphrastic, even a pantoum and a sonnet–and equally rangy in scene and setting." |
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