What Sparks Poetry:
Cecily Parks on "Girlhood"
"Readers and writers of ecological poetry long ago abandoned the notion that representation alone equates to an ecological engagement with the natural world. This line of thinking draws ecopoetry and ekphrastic poetry into an agreement: description is valuable if it’s rhetorical. Rhetorical is another way of saying persuasive, or moving, but it is not another way of saying pedantic." |
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"Poetry Is For The People"
Avery R. Young, Chicago’s first poet laureate, plans to wrest poetry from poets, “The poet laureate has to be someone who’s walking into so many other rooms, outside of open mics and libraries and bookstores....The poetry is for the people. Poetry has never been for the poets. Somehow, poets messed around and made it for ourselves.”
via BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO |
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