☀ Today's Poem: "In the Winter in Fairbanks, Even the Light Comes Late to Class" Nicole Stellon O'Donnell

“'A poetry slam becomes poetry for the people decided by the people and so you’re changing your idea of what a poem can be because it’s happening live and it becomes a sport,' says Cabico. 'People who find themselves at poetry slams are usually at the end of their rope,' he says. 'And then they find a community and so it opens up so many doors.'”

"When I found harris's poem, I saw myself, I saw the midwest I knew, I saw my own disregard for the interiority of others, I saw my own sloppiness. It’s a poem that performs its own searching, too—you hear the speaker reworking their language, endlessly reprocessing their positions and complicities."

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