Poet Scoops Forward Award for Second Time
Malika Booker became the first woman to win the Forward best poem award twice, with her poem, "Libation." "They said Booker's poem was about 'loss, funeral wakes and how ancient traditions are handed down.' They also said it was about the act of 'libation - a drink poured in honour of the dead - that young people re-enact, despite not fully understanding its meaning.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Matt Donovan on Other Arts
"Yet, as with each of the blackout poems I wrote for our Missing Department project (twenty-five in all), there were always more resonant and unexpected meanings to explore beyond any words the two texts happened to share. Although I might have been initially pleased to make a connection between the mother's address in Klamath Falls and the story's descriptions of a river that ran through the center of its fictional town, for instance, the presence of moving water ended up affording me the poem's core metaphor." |
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