As innocent as a new born, "Where Babies Come From" is a title to instantly put us on alert that something unusual is probably going to happen. And it does, but not until after the usual happens—the babies collect shells, they island hop, they succumb to typhoons and birds of prey, they build boats—it's never easy being a baby—and then we meet their mothers and fathers. Happy Halloween.
Dara Barrois/ Dixon on "Where Babies Come From" |
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"Ananda Devi Wins the 2024 Neustadt Prize"
"Robert Con Davis-Undiano, World Literature Today’s executive director, notes that 'it is long overdue for Ananda Devi to receive an international honor of this magnitude. She is deserving, and I hope that this honor will be a springboard to more recognition for her amazing work.'"
via THE NEUSTADT PRIZES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nathan Spoon on Language as Form
"'I Have a Vision for My Poems' belongs to a series of Sylvia Plath found poems Nazifa Islam is writing 'to dissect, examine, and explore the bipolar experience.' The poem exemplifies how Islam is using this series to openly connect with a disabled ancestor, which is important because, while various cognitive disabilities have probably existed as long as humans have, the language to frame and see them as distinct embodiments and identities has not." |
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