The more I write, the more poetry feels primarily about rhythm. I find what interests me—in this case a story about a medieval king in what is now Ethiopia who carved a series of churches out of solid stone with the help of some angels—and let sound suggest the path of each successive line. This process of playful iteration adds spontaneity and fun and motivates me to keep writing.
Matt Broaddus on "Lalibela" |
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"Poetry Can Leap Across Time with Just a Line": Tishani Doshi
"How do we talk about women’s bodies, the violence, the power, and how do we do it in a way that doesn’t feel like a repetition of violence or degradation, but about reclamation, and about the difficulty of just holding these oppositions and dualities? There’s no answer, but I think what poetry can do is bring together things that are in contradiction, or things that are difficult and overwhelming and try to look at them aslant, with complexity, and with the possibility for some kind of transformation."
via HER |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cindy Juyoung Ok on Other Arts
"'Home Ward (Seoul, Korea, 2012)' approximates the physical layout of a room. My memory of the real room, one of the last where my grandfather stayed, is marked by the concentration of patient beds in a rectangular space that, if empty, I would have considered a wide hallway." |
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