When I wrote this poem, I had been told by three specialists that I was dying of liver cancer. Somehow, I still believed that I might not die. Mortality helps us value our time, the transitory beauty around us. The end of the poem represented my strong attachment to my life in progress. Seven years later, here I am, still kicking, still with a finger on the page of an unfinished poem.
Jeannine Hall Gailey on "On Being Told You're Dying, but Not Quite Believing It" |
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Tara Prakash Named First -Ever Youth Poet Laureate of Maryland
"18-year-old Rising senior Tara Prakash was performing at the Kennedy Center when she heard the news that she was to be named Maryland’s first-ever youth poet laureate. Prakash told WTOP, her parents had been informed ahead of time, and kept it secret to surprise her. When she heard her name coupled with the words 'Youth Poet Laureate'for an entire state, she told WTOP, 'I was like, I can’t be hearing this right!'"
viaWTOP NEWS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Matthew Tuckner on Ecopoetry Now
"Donnelly’s work has always been in conversation with Keats, but it is here, through Chariot’s strictness of form, that Donnelly broaches on what Keats called the 'egotistical sublime,' the notion that there is a direct correlation between 'voice' and environment. Form molds and directs the thinking in these poems, “This Is the Assemblage” included. Yet form also becomes a stricture to push against in these poems, further articulating the question asked by Whitman that Donnelly enlists as the book’s epigraph: 'to be in any form, what is that?'" |
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