This poem is the opening poem from my forthcoming chapbook, TODAY IS AN UNHOLY SUITE (Barrelhouse 2023), which takes on a single day’s edges of queerness, godlessness, and memory. This poem in particular is a dirge in me. There is an intense alienation, a deep melancholia that arrives with each holiday season. And yet, the love is the thing that bolsters that loneliness. I’m thinking of each and every person who knows what this feels like. And I’m wishing you the kind of unconditional love that sees you.
grace (ge) gilbert on "Today Is Looking for the 'Right Moment'" |
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"What Can Ancient Spiritual Poetry Teach Us about Living?"
"Poets have invested themselves in this promise for millennia. The idea that mellifluous, earnest language might thin the partition between our world and the next, between our world and the divine. That there might in our breath exist a bit of spirit that could be harnessed, bridled. It’s an idea as old as language, as old as incantation."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nicole Tong on Reaching Incarcerated Scholars
"Poetry by living poets reminds us that we live in a world shared by others in real time, and that especially matters during liminal periods marked by uncertainty and isolation. I’m inspired by people—JDC scholars, my community college students, women and children living in shelters— who navigate these waters—however they can—and (to borrow from the great Lucille Clifton) manage to 'sail through this to that'." |
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