Through a very specific portal—a much-viewed video of a man carrying a sloth from a busy road to the safety of a tree, the sloth looking back and reaching toward him—I fell into a meditation on the kaleidoscopic ways sentience and circumstance intersect to create moments of encounter: the edges where they begin and end, how they linger, what can’t be translated but can be transmitted in them.
Lisa Olstein on "Thank You Goodbye" |
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"Theophanies: Poems by Sarah Ghazal Ali"
"The poems give an overwhelming impression of a reflective and refractive female self, the nature of the feminine displayed and explored, human and divine. Within the feminine, there is a fusion of earth and spirit. Creativity is a female force. The work focuses on the mother, the birthing, the child. The Christian and Muslim women give birth to miracles and suffer the pain and torn-ness that come with birth."
via MER LITERARY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gilad Jaffe on Language as Form
"Temporary things don’t want to be permanent—at the end of the day, I like to think they fall in love with their own uncertainty. The purple vinyl seats melting into the Iowan wall, the orange traffic cones stationed at an intersection in Rhode Island, blossoming. 'The yellow horses spilling from their sidewalk stalls, sidestepping fruit vendors in an inharmonious derby…'" |
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