"Northern California" was kinda written as an homage to my 20 year anniversary of living in the Bay—kinda always noticing how bizzare the vibe is here and how much I've changed in the interim—I've officially lived here longer than the state I grew up in—it was my declaration of "home."
Brontez Purnell on "Northern California" |
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2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists
"The National Book Critics Circle announced its 30 finalists for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which celebrate the best books of the year in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, general nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists for poetry: Saskia Hamilton, All Souls (Graywolf Press); Kim Hyesoon, Phantom Pain Wings, translated by Don Mee Choi (New Directions); Romeo Oriogun, The Gathering of Bastards (University of Nebraska Press); Robyn Schiff, Information Desk (Penguin Books); Charif Shanahan, Trace Evidence (Tin House)."
via LITHUB |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Ghazal Ali on Language as Form
"'Matrilineage [Umbilicus]' sprung from this unsettledness, not halfway into my first pregnancy, when my body ceased to be entirely mine. I came to the page eyes closed, hands outstretched to trace the contours of my thinking. I could not yet trace the face of my child, so I tried instead to touch each thought as it was born." |
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