In summer of 2017, I participated in a workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center led by Gabrielle Calvocoressi. “The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” came out of an exercise Gaby gave us early in the week that involved taking a walk down to the beach and making observations without taking notes.
Donika Kelly on "The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings." |
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Alan Shapiro Remembers C. K. Williams
"We were talking about Dante, the end of Canto 4 when Virgil introduces the pilgrim to four of the illustrious poets of antiquity: Homer, Ovid, Horace, and Lucan....I asked Charlie what he thought they might have talked about as they strolled through Limbo. Without hesitating, he said....they talked shop, they talked syllable, pitch and tone, duration, stress and weight, phrasing and timing, formal choices, diction, metaphor, all the subtleties of singing."
via TRIQUARTERLY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes on Ama Codjoe's "Superpower"
"Each time I read 'Superpower,' I’m astonished by the turns the poem keeps making: from the playful to the horrifying, spanning over a hundred years in a few lines. The poem moves from an imagined fantasy of a superhero, to the folk hero John Henry, to an unnamed enslaved woman, to a (re)imagined memory of the speaker’s mother." |
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We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality.
We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world. Black Lives Matter. |
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