I wrote “Praise” during the early days of my husband’s recovery from alcoholism, at a poetry retreat in Ditidaht territory, on Vancouver Island. The afternoon assignment was “praise.” I grew up singing the halls of a Lutheran high school. Even when I left the church, I continued to meditate in song, sang to my children. The assignment made salient a silence I had not noticed, and was not yet ready to fill.
Michelle Poirier Brown on "Praise" |
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"A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt"
The AIDS crisis of the late twentieth century haunts Jacques Rancourt's new book, Brocken Spectre. "In a lot of ways, so much of the progress of humanizing queer people was a direct result of the crisis. Part of it is also thinking about the ethics of memory: what right do we have to memorialize and remember, and what obligations do we have to memorialize and remember?"
via THE RUMPUS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Dan Beachy-Quick's Stone-Garland
"Beachy-Quick introduces each poet, then 'sings another's song' through his translations, reifying each speaker's preoccupations, whether love or lust, revenge or financial ruin, aesthetic wonder or the transience of life. Throughout the book, we find all manner of fragments: poems torn in half, lines cut short mid-word, and other poems, according to Beachy-Quick, assembled from various incomplete texts, 'held together not by fact, but by resonance.'" |
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