The dashes and elisions and caesuras of trauma—from Ovid to Dickinson—create a particular kind of music: one marked by gaps and absences, aspiring to both song and silence. “Larks” engages this formal tradition, where the unsaid is integral to the fabric of what is said. The poetic line, nested in silence, is able to hold what we can no longer carry.
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"Poem of the Week: The Rain in the Night"
Carol Rumens chooses a poem from Heidi Williamson's collection, Return by Minor Road, in remembrance of the 1996 primary school shootings in Dunblane, Scotland. "Spared direct personal bereavement, unlike some of her friends, she explores various ways of making poems which acknowledge the difficult balance of what might be called distanced witness."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Reginald Dwayne Betts on the Million Book Project
"This is a big and funky and radical project. And so it gets walked out slowly....I think a lot of people who criticize different kinds of projects also don't understand what we mean. We’re putting a million books in prisons, and that's not even what I would imagine to be the kind of scale that I want a project like this to exist on. We want this Freedom Library to serve the same purpose as the libraries you find in people’s homes." |
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