“On Exiting Universitätspital…” appears in my new collection of poems, "Trace Evidence," which explores questions of mixed-race identity, sexual intimacy, and the legacies of transcontinental colonialism. The third and final section of the book—the one in which this poem appears—considers one’s relationship to time and the difficulty, or the impossibility, of inhabiting the present moment for individuals whose identities are liminal and shift across social contexts.
Charif Shanahan on "On Exiting Universitätsspital Zürich, New Year's Eve, 2015" |
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"Yannis Ritsos: The Greatest Greek Poet of His Time"
"When the coup d’état occurred on April 21, 1967, his friends advised the poet to hide, but he did not leave his home. He was arrested and detained at the Faliro Hippodrome and was later taken to the camp for political prisoners on Gyaros, later being transferred to Leros."
via GREEK REPORTER |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Claire Wahmanholm on "Deathbed Dream with Extinction List"
"I love writing abecedarians. I love that they make me reach for words I would not ordinarily reach for; I love that they gesture at abundance without exhausting it, that they leave more unsaid than said. I love that they open the doors of my existing knowledge and invite me into the dictionary, the thesaurus, the encyclopedia, any number of archives. I love how democratic they are: even the trickiest, least common letter must be used, and the heavy hitters may only appear once." |
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