Whatever you’re doing is the work. I tell my students often, hoping they learn trust, “making their way” through poetry. In “Work,” recalling a moment I felt so terrified, I destroyed a bowl I loved, I’m learning how I might belong. In comma and question mark, apostrophe, period, parenthesis and bracket, who are you loving when you write? Feeling heartbroken, where do you hide from your mistakes? In plain sight?
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon on "Work" |
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"Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse"
"Poetry is a trickster of a genre: not fiction, not nonfiction, but also not not them: both/and, either/or. Likely predating the written word, poetry in ancient times saved and circulated information worth remembering, facts and fictions: history, genealogy, myths, legends, declarations of love. Somewhere along the line, the concept of 'the speaker' emerged—a hybrid of nonfiction’s rule that the narrator is the author, and fiction’s rule that the narrator is not the author but an imagined character."
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What Sparks Poetry: Matthew Cooperman on Reading Prose
"How will we spend our days? How will we attend to our rapidly accelerating planet? One habit of response is to read bracing prose, and for me, it’s often “the consolations of philosophy,” to quote an excellent recent example by Alain de Botton. From the Affective Turn to the Queering of Nature, Object Oriented Ontology to Anthropocene Studies, there’s an incredible florescence of philosophical writing going on internationally, as if climate change has triggered all our cells to wake up." |
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