We might think there’s a secret dialogue between “A Thousand Vowels” and George Oppen’s “Psalm,” a poem about an encounter with deer that ends:
Their paths
Nibbled thru the fields, the leaves that shade them
Hang in the distances
Of sun
The small nouns
Crying faith
In this in which the wild deer
Startle, and stare out.
Oppen & Kido are both exploring the way that experience is negotiated through language.
Forrest Gander on "A Thousand Vowels" |
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Anti-Dictator Poem Shuts Down Zitouna TV
Tunisian television host Amer Ayad read out "The Ruler" by Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar on air, which led to his arrest and a raid on the station. "His detention is the latest in a series of arrests that have targeted journalists and lawmakers who had expressed their opposition to the president's measures."
via BBC |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rosemarie Dombrowski on Public Poetry and Public Health
"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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