A difficult but important part of poetry for me has always been to explore the ugliness of the world, and our relationship to it as people—how individual grief becomes collectivized and vice versa. Like so many, I spent April 16, 2007 trying to get ahold of friends and family in Blacksburg. It was strange, then, to learn later how our collective act of love and worry inadvertently traced a penumbra of loss.
Robert Wood Lynn on "About the Phones" |
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Poetry Daily Reading on Zoom
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What Sparks Poetry:
Maricela Guerrero (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"And this is precisely where poetry and poetic communion shelter me with hope without optimism; where, in the different languages inhabited by beings with whom I share the air and water of this planet, we come together in longing for and choosing another way of interweaving, of searching inside ourselves for new ways to reverse this disaster." |
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