When I wrote this poem, I was thinking about the idea of belonging. What does it mean to belong to a city that is being gentrified? To belong to my kids? My spouse? In answering these questions, I began to shift my focus; what I desired was really a sense of reclamation. The poem came together when I considered what it would mean to return to myself.
Brittany Rogers on "Throwback Night, Midway Skating Rink" |
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Bianca Stone and a Legacy of Writing
Newly appointed as Vermont's poet laureate, Bianca Stone follows her grandmother, Ruth Stone, Vermont's poet laureate from 2007 to 2011. “I feel like, essentially, I wouldn’t be a poet without having had my grandmother in my life and having a special relationship with her that very much right from the beginning involved poetry....That idea of sharing poetry was Ruth’s way. Now I continue that lineage but in my own way.”
via TIMES ARGUS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evelyn Reilly on "Having Broken, Are"
"I live in New York City and also down a dirt road in the country, and that dual existence is part of the 'reality' of both the title poem and the poem sequences that make up most of this book. I put 'reality' in quotation marks because all poems, I believe, are attempts to channel what Sun RA (who is also an interlocutor in this book) calls the 'impossible possible,' which is both a reality and not. Seeking possible words for impossible possibilities I take as one of poetry’s tasks." |
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