What Sparks Poetry:
Corinna Vallianatos on Sylvia Plath's "Blackberrying"
"Nothing is ever nothing—description gives nothing shape. The seeing gains power, even as the one doing the seeing recedes. The bounty of what’s come before, the berries and their juices and the milkbottle the speaker uses to collect them, which brings to mind the body and domesticity, lifts at the end into the elemental, something seemingly less comforting but, to me, more so." |
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New National Youth Poet Laureate
"Alexandra Huynh, an 18-year old poet from Sacramento, was named the new National Youth Poet Laureate on Thursday. The poetry of Huynh, a Mira Loma High School graduate and Sacramento native whose passions include youth empowerment, climate action and creative writing, was described by officials as 'a tool of self-reclamation and social justice for marginalized communities.'"
via THE SACRAMENTO BEE |
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