I wrote "Marked Safe" around the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots. As the poem states, I was grateful to be alive and to witness such a historic event for Queer LGBTQi people. I also wanted to acknowledge the sometimes positive roles that Queers in pop culture, in television, film and other media have, paving the way for those of us who have been invisible or misrepresented, and creating space and language for those who’ve experienced discrimination and/or violence.
Pamela Sneed on "Marked Safe" |
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Wins 2021 Bollingen Prize
“Emerging from the ferment of the Basement Workshop, a collective of Asian-American poets, artists, and activists in the 1970s, Berssenbrugge went on to create a visionary ecopoetics that directly confronts our planetary—and human—crisis. With her preternaturally long lines, Berssenbrugge composes a syntax of unfolding vistas, stretching our senses of both the plausible and the possible."
via YALE UNIVERSITY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on "Resurrection"
"This element of Kurdish delights me: to crack a word open and peer inside it, to find a world within a word, a world where the abstract is embodied. The Kurdish language calls the body into every conversation, fashioning idea from body. There is no hiding the body, not even to protect it." |
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