"Sandra Lim Wins Jackson Poetry Prize"
"In identifying Lim as this year's winner, the judges issued a citation that reads, in part: 'It's tempting to think of Sandra Lim as a philosopher poet, in the school of Marcus Aurelius—her poems address the conundrum of being a self with fears and feelings in spite of the mortality that should in theory put us at ease. Wielding a striking combination of cool detachment and sly humor, Lim constantly points to the mundane aspects of the world and to how we nevertheless cling to them, always expecting something more.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Melissa Kwasny on "Sleeping with the Cedars"
"Most of us are frightened of the future and grief stricken at what humans have done to the earth. As I see it, one of the unique tasks of poets, especially at this time, is to be in imaginative relation with the Earth. And to use language as a tool toward that effort. To have an imaginative—as opposed to an abstract or intellectual—relationship with the earth is to be in attendance to what Denise Levertov called 'other forms of life that want to live.'" |
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Write with Poetry Daily This April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll share popular writing prompts from our "What Sparks Poetry" essay series each morning. Write along with us!
Write a poem in which remembered images of particular moments, people, or things alternate or converse with passages of historical fact, violent events, or intellectual propositions. Make what you remember detailed, sensuous, and so alive even you forget it is gone. If you can, let the poem also remind us that when language is working best it is also always failing. Susan Tichy |
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