There’s a depth of knowledge that one carries with them from the end of a love affair—not only what you have learned from the relationship, but the intimate knowing of another person’s heart, mind, and life stories. This poem begins at the end of an affair, with the speaker meditating on the lost loves of the lost beloved, helping herself understand how they would arrive to this moment of departure.
Danielle Cadena Deulen on "Reversal" |
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"Honoring Five Outstanding Young Poets"
"The Poetry Foundation announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows are Tarik Dobbs, Diamond Forde, Tariq Luthun, Troy Osaki, and Alan Pelaez Lopez. Each poet receives a $25,800 prize....'It is a distinct pleasure to celebrate these talented young poets, who are already so committed to bringing poetry forward,' said Michelle T. Boone, president of the Poetry Foundation."
via POETRY FOUNDATION |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Eugene Ostashevsky on Vasily Kamensky's “Constantinople"
"The Cubist language of the poem imposes cuts on words, fractures them into planes by repetition and variation, and recombines parts of words to build other words. Although the poem lacks a single order of reading—nor do we have evidence that Kamensky ever performed it out loud—it pulsates with sound repetitions. Repetitions convert its word lists into the sonic counterparts of Cubist planes, with each word turning into a formal variation of the one above it." |
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