Using tomography, scientists reproduced the voice of an ancient Egyptian priest by creating a 3-D-printed replica of his mummified vocal tract. The outside of the mummy's coffin reads "Nesyamun, true of voice." The voices of those who have passed cannot be buried and sometimes they speak the loudest.
Adebe DeRango-Adem on "Vox Apsens / Anastasis" |
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"Jericho Brown Talks Poetic Process Ahead of 2024 AWP Conference"
"What persona poems do, or what all literature does, but what I think persona poems were meant to do more directly is remind us of actual lived experience and remind us of the complexity of being a human being, no matter who the speaker is. That's why so often, persona poems are in the persona's voice, but the persona ends up saying the thing that the poet would say. There are lines that the poet and the particular figure or persona have in common. In that Janis Joplin poem, there's much of that poem that I could say and not be Janis Joplin."
viaTHE PITCH |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on "Black Box"
"My poem, 'Black Box,' is beguiled by the metaphor of the black box as a way to broach the world, the people around us, and our own hearts. Part of that beguilement also has to do with the very limits of the black box metaphor itself; conceptual orderliness of a certain way of thinking can imprison us in a limiting framework—the black box is itself a black box. One way out of this is to construct more conceptual frameworks with horizons of possibility going far beyond what we hold to be true, or at least, visible." |
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