Amish Trivedi on Jerome Rothenberg
"What began in the last week of 2008 was something like an apprenticeship, both working for Jerry doing various bloggy things (mostly making sure posts were set the way he liked them, were scheduled when he wanted them, etc.) and learning more and more about how to deal with being a poet in the modern world. And he brought me into this world of his. I got to meet a number of heroes, a number of villains, and a lot of poets — all of whom I’m grateful for — and all thanks to Jerry."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lindsay Turner on "Forms of Displeasure"
"In The Upstate, I was trying to connect the regional experience of a place, a certain corner of Southern Appalachia, with the bigger structural issues of America of 2016-2020, roughly, and of the world. I was trying to do this in poems because it’s also what I was trying to do in real life, struggling against the claustrophobia of depression and anxiety as well as of certain region-based patterns of writing and thinking." |
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