"The Poet Pundit": Cathy Park Hong
"She told me that early in the pandemic, she felt concerned about the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans and the ways in which the reporting on the topic felt anonymous. As a writer, Hong felt she could 'bring blood and feelings and emotions and intellect' into what was happening. 'But if you’re a little bit public, people are going to make a representative out of you no matter what,' she conceded."
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What Sparks Poetry: Joshua Edwards on Gérard de Nerval's "Waking Up in a Stagecoach"
"I began with the title: “Le Réveil en voiture.” It seemed so simple. “Réveil” is “awaken” and “voiture” is something that carries someone, a vehicle. But which vehicle to put the reader in? What should carry them through the landscape of the poem? The obvious choices at first were “carriage” and “coach,” but those seemed too distant, too private, too monochrome. “Stagecoach” felt better! It was technicolor." |
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