Postpartum depression is difficult to endure, and in some ways, even more difficult to talk about. As a Black woman, there is an expectation that I remain strong, available and composed at all times. Writing this pantoum allowed me to use repetition to consider the cycle of harm that is enacted against Black women and disrupt the system of silence that we are encouraged to participate in.
Brittany Rogers on "Pantoum for Postpartum" |
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Living Room Craft Talks with Ellen Bass
6 Weeks Starting in April
Join us online to learn practical strategies to write poems that are vivid, arresting, complex and memorable. We’ll focus on The Turn, The Leap, Music, Dialogue, Ekphrasis, and Obsessions. With guest appearances by Kwame Dawes, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson, Danusha Laméris, Nicole Sealy, and Patricia Smith! Scholarships available. Register here. |
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"The Pursuit of Awe"
Maryann Corbett reviews the tenor of ecstasy in Aaron Poochigian’s American Divine. "He has a special bent, in translations and original work, for the rhyming stanza. Stanza patterns are everywhere in his original poems, along with irregular rhyming—half and near and slant—dimeters, trimeters, hexameters, and the four-stress alliterative lines of his verse novel Mr. Either/Or."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Reginald Dwayne Betts on the Million Book Project
"This is a big and funky and radical project. And so it gets walked out slowly....I think a lot of people who criticize different kinds of projects also don't understand what we mean. We’re putting a million books in prisons, and that's not even what I would imagine to be the kind of scale that I want a project like this to exist on. We want this Freedom Library to serve the same purpose as the libraries you find in people’s homes." |
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