What Sparks Poetry:
Jared Stanley on "So Tough"
"When the forests (it’s more precise to call them plantations) burn now, it’s a massive conflagration. We downwinders are trapped under a persistent, poisonous haze that sticks around for sometimes six weeks. Under the smoke, it’s hard to breathe, and one feels trapped—by the material, particulate fact of the smoke, yes, but also by an atmosphere of dense thoughtlessness, a failed image of the world that the smoke has come to represent." |
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Call the Poetry Hotline
"The hotline is the brainchild of Anis Mojgani, Oregon's poet laureate. During the pandemic, Mojgani started sunset poetry readings outside of his window. People—at first, masked and distanced, then not—gathered on folding chairs in the street to get a moment of reflection and joy....'What I want for it to offer is just a little quiet room, give a caller the space to kind of, like, hear something from inside themself.'"
viaNPR |
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