"This poem is from my book "The Animal Is Chemical," which includes a series of erasures based on pharmaceutical package inserts from medications I and my family had recently consumed. I was a medical editor for several years and was fascinated by this idea that language could harm or heal. I challenged myself to take the hard, impenetrable language of package inserts and turn them into poems in order to find language a care—that might heal, inform, warn, or simply keep readers company in a moment of need."
Hadara Bar-Nadav on [I am altered, terminal, skeletal] |
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The Folger Library Revamped
"After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is re-opening with a more welcoming approach. For decades, the library's 82 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio—the largest collection in the world—were locked away in a vault with access granted only to select scholars. But now, anyone can enter the public galleries and see the 36 plays on display."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gilad Jaffe on Language as Form
"Temporary things don’t want to be permanent—at the end of the day, I like to think they fall in love with their own uncertainty. The purple vinyl seats melting into the Iowan wall, the orange traffic cones stationed at an intersection in Rhode Island, blossoming. 'The yellow horses spilling from their sidewalk stalls, sidestepping fruit vendors in an inharmonious derby…'" |
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