"At the 2019 Druskininkai Poetic Fall, as Kęstutis read from a wheelchair, my English translations ghosting on a screen above, a Croatian poet turned to me and said, “This is really good. Nobody writes like this.” I thought she was right. I thought maybe Kęstutis and I are right in trying to put together an English collection of his late free-verse poems that are something like stream of consciousness and something like surrealism and not exactly either but the unique expression of a startlingly creative mind at play. I am glad they have life in them yet."
Rimas Uzgiris on "Archaeopteryx" and "One Morning" |
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2020 American Poets Prizes
The Academy of American Poets announces the winners of the 2020 American Poets Prizes. They include Carmen Giménez Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, Geoffrey Brock, Nikky Finney, and others. The prizes support poets at all stages of their careers, ranging from poets twenty-three years old or younger to poets demonstrating, "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."
via ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cole Swensen on "Agnes Varda: Here There & Then Now"
“The object I’m considering is a landscape, which includes recognizing myself as part of any landscape that I’m engaging, whether I’m looking at it, remembering it, imagining it, or writing about it, and whether that landscape is the rolling hills of California, a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, a video by Zenib Sedira, or an argument for public parks by Fredrick Law Olmsted." |
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