| Please join Poetry Daily editorial board members Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky on Tuesday, November 2 at 7:30pm ET for an intimate online reading and conversation about Akbar’s Pilgrim Bell, his highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. |
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Louise Glück's Icy Precision
"Some days, and in the dark intervals between days, it seems to me that Glück’s preoccupations are what poetry is for, that poems are confrontations with the void. If we’re on a moving walkway approaching the void, we can ignore it, avoid all thoughts of it, for only so long."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Shara Lessley on Li-Young Lee's "My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud"
"The more I studied 'My Father, in Heaven...,' the more I appreciated the stanzas’ complexity, pattern-making, and interiority, and how the poem reflected the lyric’s capacity as a communal art. I knew this is what I wanted. Whether I could write anything of dimension was uncertain. But in Lee’s work I discovered textures of energy, music, and intimacy I hoped to emulate—even if I couldn’t predict my effort’s outcome." |
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MFA Open House November 1
Join Mason Creative Writing students, faculty, and administrators for an online open house and discover one of the country's more distinctive MFA programs. With opportunities through our brand-new Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice, an MFA from Mason can make all the difference to your artistic and professional life.
Register here or call 703-993-1185. |
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