"Stripes" is an effort to express with love and without judgment what a day with my mother was like once she'd developed Alzheimer's disease. I enjoyed her company. We laughed. She felt safe with me and came to believe I was her sister Pauline, an aunt I adored. I accepted her for who she was and what she could do and remember. It was a very loving time for us, and I miss her.
Pam Baggett on "Stripes" |
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Ilya Kaminsky: "Poems in a Time of Crisis"
"Now I spend most of every day online, in America, trying to find ways out for Ukrainian poets and translators. Many literary organizations are willing to open their doors, bring in refugees, but unlike my grandmother and me, lots of Ukrainian writers don't want to leave. They want their freedoms. They want their own languages—Ukrainian and Russian—in their own streets. I understand. My Jewish family keeps running from Odessa—and then returning."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
fahima ife (New Orleans) on Ecopoetry Now
"That I required a desert to write poetry of the swamp. I open another poetry collection, wander inside the wet density of word, step outside world as we know it. As if poets hold access to the mycelial inner-dimensionalities of Earth as we continue singing in its wake. Something about lack of old forest in the DeepSouth—as you say: the woods here are less than one-hundred years old, on a billions of years old planet, in a newly-contested country, written in the lineage of descent." |
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