"What's Inside is Burning, Burning"In his comprehensive 2020 Poetry Preview, Craig Morgan Teicher reaches for books that "keep the dark at bay." He writes, "This year, our poets are singing their many identities, lamenting their lost loved ones and flickering hopes, pointing undaunted fingers, building communities with words, signaling that all's not lost. I've never needed their company so much."via NPR |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jay Besemer on Tristan Tzara's “Anecdote""Already focusing on short, intense poems in my own writing, the eleven-line near-sonnet of 'Anecdote' made me feel that I had a path ahead of me ('from one halt to the next') and reassured me that I was not alone in my experiences of violent alienation and the sense of being wrong, badly-suited for what the whole world seemed to expect of me. In both form and content, 'Anecdote' resonated with my own needs, perspective and experiences, both interior and as a human animal in the world." |
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