What Sparks Poetry:
Kerry Folan on A Community Poetry Reading in Response to Violence
"I stay tuned in to the conversations happening in my community, and try to respond with events that respond. Like the rest of the world, my community has been watching the images of violence and reports of destruction of the past several months with despair. I wanted to offer my community a way to bear witness to all this suffering in a way that felt meaningful and respectful, and felt strongly that poetry can help us in this moment." |
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A Conversation with Gary Snyder
"Snyder says he's still writing poems from time to time, but doesn't expect another book. He feels he's said what he wants to say in poems. Part of that saying has the ferocity, if that's the word, of Jack Gilbert, but little of Gilbert's pompous edge. There's more attention to thick description in Snyder, to the meat of a matter. The urgency of Adrienne Rich and the patience of Wordsworth. He is one of our greatest living poets."
via MCSWEENEY'S |
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