What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In our occasional series, Building Community, we explore what poetry brings to our homes, neighborhoods and the world—and what community makes possible for poetry itself. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the author and an excerpt from their essay.
C. D. Wright
We live on a hillside
close to water
We eat in darkness
We sleep in the coldest
part of the house
We love in silence
We keep our poetry
locked in a glass cabinet
Some nights We stay up
passing it back and
forth
between us
drinking deep
from the book STEAL AWAY: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS / Copper Canyon Press
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on What Keeps Us


"The sub-title of this installment of What Sparks Poetry is 'Poems to Read in Community.' The Poetry Daily team convened this semester, inspired by C.D. Wright’s 'What Keeps,' to select a group of twenty poems, most from our last year of publication, that one might pass across the table—to a loved one, to oneself. In last year’s version of this feature, Kerry Folan said the poems selected were meant to '“offer sustenance.' Roque Dalton did say that poetry, like bread, is for everyone. And I still think that holds true."
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"Disperse the Nation: Don Mee Choi’s Poetry Trilogy"

"Her recently completed poetry trilogy consisting of Hardly WarDMZ Colony, and Mirror Nation1 locates itself in South Korea, the United States, and Berlin, only to constantly cross geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders to chase after and be chased by the historical effects of colonial power—although it might be more accurate to say that Choi’s trilogy pursues and is pursued not by history but by its ghosts that linger in textual and photographic archives and personal memory."

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