Why South Dakota Has No Poet Laureate
"Poet Laureate Emeritus Christine Stewart says since the laureate is not a paid position, whomever is chosen must be an effective collaborator as well as a poet of merit. 'It makes me really sad that the board’s choice didn’t get confirmed by the governor....I know the board knew they could work with their choice. They believed in that person’s track record, the quality of their work, and what they had in mind moving forward.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Joseph Walsh on Sara Nicholson's April
"Maybe what Nature and Art have in common is their amenability to being read—the fact that both can be the object of lectio divina, the contemplation of the 'living word.' In April the gods have left us, but Nature, like poetry, is being written, and can be read. The world is a poem, or a painting, and a poem, in turn, is the world, or at least a world (an 'imaginary garden with real toads in [it],' if you will)." |
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