What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on Taylor Johnson’s Inheritance
"Maybe you already know inheritance is vexed by paradox. Boon or burden, boon and burden? Each of us enters Johnson’s book through that singular, seemingly never settled and always unsettling noun, holding a small flat object labeled Inheritance. A thing made and possessed by another, and now—is it really yours? A thing given, but was it freely chosen? 'Extraordinary limitation,' Johnson writes, 'playing freedom.'" |
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How Ada Limón Brings Poetry to National Parks
For one of her projects as Poet Laureate, Ada Limón wanted people to encounter poems as they wandered through natural landscapes. "The result is a dispersed exhibit of picnic tables engraved with poems by a variety of modern writers selected by Limón. The initiative is being rolled out at seven national parks this summer. At Mount Rainier, in Washington State, the late poet A. R. Ammons’s work 'Uppermost' will accompany a view of the 14,411-foot peak from the park’s popular Paradise area."
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