What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In our occasional series, Building Community, we spotlight connections between our work on the page and our work in the community. In each issue, we pair a poem from our featured poet with an interview that explores what poetry brings to our neighborhoods, cities, and the wider world—and what community makes possible for poetry itself.
The gospel of the journey is realizing
that eating is a political act,
that the Woodstock of the mind
is everywhere on a tiny planet like ours,

that the inventory of the body
is equivalent to the trauma
that comes from crop-dust in our eyes,
carcinogens in the crotches of our panties,
black women doing the math
that put white men on the moon.

And there are always
more questions for consideration—
like admitting that it’s hard to tell who’s shooting
while we’re praying with our eyes closed.
from the journal WEST TEXAS LITERARY REVIEW 
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"My work in medical poetry soon evolved into my work in the medical humanities. I began reading about the techniques and modalities of therapeutic poetry, and, soon after, I was conducting workshops in the community, developing a course called Poetry & Medicine, and eventually, I formed my therapeutic poetry nonprofit, Revisionary Arts." 
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"Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse"

"Carrying Jordan, Al-Qasim, Jackson, Choi, and a long line of revolutionary diasporic poetics speaking beyond the singular canonical lyric I, I arrive at a truth poets and theorists have long engaged with: that by traveling deep enough into apocalypse, a colonized people will inevitably find a new world in the rubble and aftermath of our current one." 

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