☀ Today's Poem: "(no subject)" Peter Burghardt

Today's Headline: Nationwide Funding for the Arts Announced

January 23, 2025 (no subject) Peter Burghardt People across the world settle in extremes. Places where the ground is so hot you need double-layered leather-lined shoes, or where if you get drunk enough, you'll freeze to death. The best technology sent to Mars isn't meant to return. An architect says there is not a single building that will never collapse. He says, on earth bridges are what last the longest holding ruin in the world until there is supernova. Which isn't to say it's a bad thing. It's not like I can change the channel anyhow. As an American, the camera is always on. I waste too much time trying to figure out how I look. The best trend is always a change or a return, settling into reruns and knowing what they're not. But didn't I realize that? Expansion isn't limitless, and you can't choose something into truth, like you can into concept. from the book (NO SUBJECT)/ Omnidawn READ ABOUT TODAY'S POEM Share Tweet Forward This poem was originally written for my chapbook, "Cosmic American Music", published by Cedar Sigo’s Old Gold imprint. It draws from my childhood on 29 rural acres, once a vacation cottage destination in the early 1900s, where I played in the ruins—old foundations, glass bottles, animal bones, and other markers of the past. These remnants shaped my appreciation for the tension between outward inward reflection exploration via time and space. Peter Burghardt on "(no subject)" Nationwide Funding for the Arts Announced "The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce 1,474 awards totaling $36,790,500 to support the arts in communities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC....This year’s Creative Writing Fellowships are in poetry. These fellowships are highly competitive, with more than 2,000 eligible applications received for FY 2025. The NEA will award 35 Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000 each, totaling $875,000." NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS READ ALL TODAY'S HEADLINES What Sparks Poetry: Henri Cole on James Longenbach's "In the Village" "Jim is not really nostalgic for his past life but in love with beginnings, 'A wish// A wish not to be removed/ From time/ But always to be immersed in it.' Yes, to be immersed in time again, like the boats that come in and out of the harbor, and to feel again the progress of the sun and the splash of green waves, to begin anew, to not be removed, and to listen to the secret vibrations of the world." READ THIS WEEK'S ISSUE donate View in browser You have received this email because you submitted your email address at www.poems.com. If you would like to unsubscribe please click here. © 2025 Poetry Daily, Poetry Daily, MS 3E4, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030 Design by the Binding Agency

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