What Sparks Poetry:
David Blair on W. H. Auden's "Petition"
"Naturally, I enjoyed the subtle rhymes so much that I did not even notice them, nor the poem's sonnet form, a perfect spell working on my barely conscious mind because here, in the last line and a half of the poem, was a sentiment so sudden that I could, without embarrassment, sport around with it typed and taped to my binder on a strip of paper, a fortune cookie fortune, a restaurant's first dollar: 'look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.'" |
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"Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself"
"'Howdie-skelp': the slap a midwife gives a newborn. Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed. 'American Standard,' named after a toilet brand, riffs for pages on lines from T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' while churning through contemporary concerns like gerrymandering, immigration, and grotesque politicians and their media platforms. Like Eliot, Muldoon's after big, apocalyptic vision; unlike Eliot, Muldoon is willing—no, compelled—to clown."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 10-15, 2022
We are pledged to create an extraordinary week of virtual poetry workshops and events for you in the safety of your home.
Workshop Faculty: Kim Addonizio, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Chard deNiord, Mark Doty, Yona Harvey, John Murillo, Matthew Olzmann and Diane Seuss. One-On-One Conferences with Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis Dunn, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Angela Narciso Torres. A special Craft Talk by Kwame Dawes. Special Guest Poet: Yusef Komunyakaa. Poet-at-Large: Aimee Nezhukumatathil. The Last Day to Apply! |
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