April 29, 2019
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In the first series, The Poems of Others, our editors pay homage to the poems that led them to write. Each Monday's delivery brings you the poem and an excerpt from the essay. 
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
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"I remember the moment I learned words could record the reciprocal press of poet upon the world and the world upon poet. A truant undergraduate student, I had signed up late for a “Modern British Poetry” course, and came to the second class unprepared. The assigned reading was Gerard Manley Hopkins."
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Astro Poets Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky read the charts of your favorite literary characters. 

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Sixteen Rivers Press, in its twentieth year, is pleased to announce our 2019 books: Rain, Like a Thief by Barbara Swift Brauer; All the Fires of Wind and Light by Maya Khosla; and A Folio for the Dark by Camille Norton. Ellery Akers writes that Brauer is “a poet of wonderful transparency and economy,” while Pattiann Rogers writes that Khosla’s “sonorous, attentive voice” bestows “an aura of the miraculous,” and Julia B. Levine calls Norton’s poems “mysterious, brutal, and beautiful as truth.”
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