My Trade is Mystery: Carl Phillips' New Book
"When my first book was published in 1992, there were very few openly queer poets being published, and even fewer queer Black poets. I’m sure plenty were writing, but they weren’t getting published in places where it was easy to encounter their work. I am honored to think that I broke some ground for writers who came up later—to name some who have actually told me so, I can think of Jericho Brown, Danez Smith, Derrick Austin, Donika Kelly, Phillip B. Williams."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cecily Parks on "Girlhood"
"Readers and writers of ecological poetry long ago abandoned the notion that representation alone equates to an ecological engagement with the natural world. This line of thinking draws ecopoetry and ekphrastic poetry into an agreement: description is valuable if it’s rhetorical. Rhetorical is another way of saying persuasive, or moving, but it is not another way of saying pedantic." |
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