I've been writing these prose poems relentlessly for about 10 years now. I used to have an aversion to the very idea of prose poems. I thought of them as mules—sterile hybrids. Now I think of them as the euglena—a cutthroat survivor with a foot in two kingdoms.
Charles Rafferty on "The Problem with Invention" |
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"A Conversation with Solmaz Sharif"
"There is something about my commitment to poetry that’s born out of my awareness of a precarity and that there are times and ways that a life gets stripped down to all one can carry. There are times that one is not allowed to carry anything, and so one can’t even carry a novel in that moment; one would be lucky to have memorized some poems for the road."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Irma Pineda (Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca) on Ecopoetry Now
"In my mother-tongue, Didxazá (Zapotec), there are two words for referring to nature. One word is nagá, which makes reference to greenery, that which grows and reproduces, like plants, trees, flowers, maize: because there will be food, there will also be life. The other word, which we use more frequently, is guendanabani, which you translate as the blessing of life and which makes reference as much to the human life as to everything that surrounds us." |
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