“Earth Falls into Heaven” began with a reading of the I Ching by my friend, artist and musician Taylor Shields. I experience this poem as an exploration of how the fundamental forces/concepts/territories of Heaven and Earth might be made to wobble when touched by human anxieties, motivations, histories.
Morgan Võ on "Earth Falls into Heaven" |
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"Pupils Set Guinness World Record in Largest Poetry Lesson"
"Pupils at an independent school in the New Forest have broken a Guinness World Record. Year six and Year seven pupils at Forres Sandle Manor took part in breaking the record for the world's largest ever poetry lesson, joining more than 43,000 pupils across the globe in contributing ideas to form a poem. Head of English Mrs Gee found the challenge when she was researching competitions for her pupils to take part in. In a special assembly, it was revealed that they had broken the record."
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What Sparks Poetry: Carol Moldaw on Drafts
"In many ways, this draft marks the end of my blind groping and the beginning of the poem proper. Nothing I’d written up to that point had caught my poetic interest linguistically; my thoughts, preoccupations, and perceptions had been floating around without substance or anchor. In this draft though, images began to coalesce, and the lines develop a distinctive voice—the poem’s voice." |
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