This poem is part of a long series that began because I could not write. I needed to start writing, and I finally did, one word at a time, and I could only stack them, seeing language as falling and resetting as I moved across and down the page. I’m grateful we can make sense of fractures like this.
Paul Gibbons on "My Brother's Sentences" |
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Jason Allen-Paisant: "We Belong in the Picture"
"There is a set of concerns in nature writing that doesn’t easily imagine black bodies and lives, but when you consider the history of black people in Britain, it’s critical to situate our identities and our histories within [nature] because we are connected to that history. My little hillside district of Coffee Grove is deeply connected [to the UK]. It was a coffee plantation using enslaved labour from the 18th century founded by a Scottish planter."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Katey Funderbergh and Nicholas Ritter on Building Community
"This program proves to me, again and again, that poetry is a liberatory force. Prisons shouldn’t exist, but each time I’m in the classroom with our students, I remember that this craft is an avenue for free expression and self-exploration. The poems allow me to connect with the students, to share my own memories, dreams, struggles, and to relate to them about both the content of the poems we read, and the content of the poems they write." |
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