In some ways, to exist in the world is to live in a house not built for us, especially those of us whose identities and histories are deemed transgressive or "too much." So what happens when we decide to really settle in? Sometimes the way to make a home out of a place that feels unwelcoming is to break the walls and let in some light.
S. J. Ghaus on "Untitled" |
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"Poetry and Art Unearth Moments of Reckoning"
"'If one writes daily, it is difficult not to evolve,' says Yusef Komunyakaa regarding his highly anticipated collection, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021....The 140 poems in this retrospective highlight Komunyakaa’s singular style of evocative opening lines, jazzy language, arresting images, and a masterful blending of various subjects, often within a few stanzas.”
via THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vivek Narayanan on Jee Leong Koh's Snow at 5 PM
"Koh's work in some moments can seem disarmingly simple, even if always rigorous in its language, lighting on the ordinary, but as you delve further it reveals a rich intelligence, omnivorous and cosmopolitan in its influences, balancing its interests in high and low, the cerebral and the bodily, the experimental and the straight, narrative and ellipsis." |
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