| Please join Poetry Daily editorial board members Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky on Tuesday, November 2 at 7:30pm ET for an intimate online reading and conversation about Akbar’s Pilgrim Bell, his highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. |
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Derrick Austin on Place and Possibility
"I didn’t have a clue what the second book would become. I knew that I wanted to see if I could make poems out of my life, my history and my daily goings on. I didn’t know how to do that when I was beginning as a poet. I’d written poems in the past about friends, but they didn’t make it into the first collection. So, I took that urge and ran with it."
via THE RUMPUS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Shara Lessley on Li-Young Lee's "My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
"The more I studied 'My Father, in Heaven...,' the more I appreciated the stanzas’ complexity, pattern-making, and interiority, and how the poem reflected the lyric’s capacity as a communal art. I knew this is what I wanted. Whether I could write anything of dimension was uncertain. But in Lee’s work I discovered textures of energy, music, and intimacy I hoped to emulate—even if I couldn’t predict my effort’s outcome." |
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MFA Open House November 1
Join Mason Creative Writing students, faculty, and administrators for an online open house and discover one of the country's more distinctive MFA programs. With opportunities through our brand-new Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice, an MFA from Mason can make all the difference to your artistic and professional life.
Register here or call 703-993-1185. |
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