Pupusas! You know them. You love them! I wanted to explore how food can be a cultural marker for identity. Though pupusas can be enjoyed by anyone, it is through familiarity, discussions, and sense of birthright that inspires deeper connections and meanings. The poem is in the form of an argument on what defines a pupusa, that it is through diverging experiences that we find unity.
Reyes Ramirez on "Pupusas" |
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Last Chance to Carry Poetry Daily
National Poetry Month 2024 is over, and our inaugural run of Poetry Daily totes is nearly gone. But this week-end you can still buy our black tote, featuring a specially commissioned illustration of a Russian Blue cat reading on a yellow Poetry Daily rug. |
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"Acclaimed Poet Receives Arts Medal"
"When Kevin Young ’92 came to Harvard as an undergraduate, he dreamed of becoming a poet. He wanted to write about Louisiana and his family, something he had yet to see in poetry collections. Young studied under celebrated poets Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido, joined the Dark Room Collective, a Boston-based community of African American writers, and threw himself into poetry."
via THE HARVARD GAZETTE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lindsay Turner on "Forms of Displeasure"
"In The Upstate, I was trying to connect the regional experience of a place, a certain corner of Southern Appalachia, with the bigger structural issues of America of 2016-2020, roughly, and of the world. I was trying to do this in poems because it’s also what I was trying to do in real life, struggling against the claustrophobia of depression and anxiety as well as of certain region-based patterns of writing and thinking." |
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