"The Cold Calms Even My Jittery Heart"
Tess Taylor shares some of her favorite poetry collections from the year—good for both savoring alone or gifting to others, including work by Liz Bradfield, Kwame Dawes, and Monika Beisner. "[A] poem can be a home for us, even temporarily - a home that we make out of breath and carefully crafted syllables."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dustin Pearson on Jillian Weise's "Beautiful Freak Show"
“Up until encountering Jillian’s poetry, I’d more or less repressed or compartmentalized the emotions I felt as a result of my marginalization and always ultimately unsuccessful assimilation, both for fear of how dangerous I thought it was to indulge those emotions and out of societally formed habit. I found a way to misplace, overlook, or normalize horrible things, even if I always survived them." |
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