Simon Armitage is funding a new prize for environmentally themed poetry with his honorarium as Britain's poet laureate. The Laurel prize will recognize the best collection of poems "with nature and the environment at their heart." He argues, "You can’t write poems about the natural world now unless it’s in an environmental context. Every word you write on that subject sort of quakes with the background predicament."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cynthia Dewi Oka
on Aracelis Girmay’s “Arroz Poetica”"I first encountered this poem in my early twenties, when I had just started to consciously write poems. It was a very difficult time in my life—I was a young mother juggling several precarious jobs and still grieving the loss of my father and separation from my community as a result of my decision to raise my child on my own. I was living like a ghost." |
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