This poem appeared in Delgado’s artist book "subtropical dry" (La Impresora, 2016), which was written in Vieques during the itinerant seminar SONIDO VIEQUES (2015). The island municipality of Vieques, east of the main island of Puerto Rico, is known for its bioluminescent bay and for its use as a U.S. Navy bombing range. The U.S. Navy withdrew from Vieques in 2003, after years of grass roots protests that "subtropical dry" memorializes and documents through the materiality of the artist book.
Urayoán Noel on "bioluminescence" / "bioluminiscencia" |
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Iñupiaq-Inuit Poet Receives Windham-Campbell Prize
dg nanouk okpik is one of eight recipients of the $175,000 prizes for literary achievement. "The committee said her 'lapidary poems sound the depths of language and landscape, shuttling between the ancient past and imperilled present of Inuit Alaska in a searching meditation on ecology and time.'" Fellow poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs also received the prize for her “luminous, visionary poetry."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Karen Leona Anderson on "Rat"
"To write vermin is to ask then who makes them faceless and liquid, seething, scheming, malicious, too much, over and over; who feeds them and then turns away, repulsed. (Was it me? Of course.) It’s to ask who is at home, inside; who is outside. Why vermin are women’s fault and their shadow, their shame and their labor, how making vermin is so much work to do and undo and who that work is for." |
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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! Think of a scene that could appear in your life, one that is plausible but one that people who aren’t you wouldn’t necessarily think of or believe. Create a persona to inhabit that scene, one that looks and sounds like you, but one that’s fundamentally different—perhaps meaner, more assertive, or brave. What does that persona do that you’d never do? What does that persona say that you’d never allow yourself to say? What does that persona enable in yourself? Dustin Pearson |
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