I wrote "Blue Lights" in an effort to capture the campus of the College of Staten Island at night; I routinely teach evening classes that let out close to 10:00 p.m. An abundance of deer appear out of nowhere, mythic in the misty night. One almost expects them to start enrolling in classes. I wanted also to capture the journeyman experience of teaching poetry in that you go where you're needed. You can end up in strange places. Places where deer walk around like they’re hanging out in their own kitchen.
Cate Marvin on "Blue Lights" |
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"Victoria Chang’s Correspondence with Grief"
“What form can express the loss of something you never knew but knew existed? Lands you never knew? People? Can one experience such a loss? The last definition of absence is the nonexistence or lack of. See how the of hangs there like someone about to jump off a balcony?”
via THE NEW YORKER |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dana Levin on Wanda Coleman's "The Woman and Her Thang"
"Standing at the magazine rack at Beyond Baroque, I opened Coleman’s chapbook at random and read: 'She kept it in a black green felt-lined box.' Ten monosyllabs—how I loved saying them, each one a kind of floating stone in the mouth—introducing the speaker’s 'thang': seductive and dangerous, wreaking havoc on her love life." |
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18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 10-15, 2022
We are pledged to create an extraordinary week of virtual poetry workshops and events for you in the safety of your home.
Workshop Faculty: Kim Addonizio, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Chard deNiord, Mark Doty, Yona Harvey, John Murillo, Matthew Olzmann and Diane Seuss. One-On-One Conferences with Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis Dunn, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Angela Narciso Torres. A special Craft Talk by Kwame Dawes. Special Guest Poet: Yusef Komunyakaa. Poet-at-Large: Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Apply by November 15! |
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