What Sparks Poetry: Karen An-hwei Lee on "Dear Millennium, a Jade Rabbit on the Far Side of the Moon”
"About a year or so before the global pandemic of 2020, China landed a rover on the far side of the moon. The rover’s name was “Jade Rabbit,” a robot that was part of the series of Chang’E missions. This mixture of facts and metaphors inspired me to reflect on our relationships to dead metaphors and their intricate web of mythologies and cultural stories leading to these metaphors—for instance, the moon as green cheese, the man in the moon, the rabbit under a cassia tree in the moon, and the lady who drank the elixir of immortality and floated there." |
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Li-Young Lee Wins Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
"Poet Li-Young Lee has been awarded the prestigious $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, honoring his lifetime achievements in poetry. Meanwhile, Carole Boston Weatherford, celebrated for her contributions to children's literature, has been named the new Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. In addition, the nonprofit awarded Elizabeth Sarah Coles its Pegasus Award for Criticism and honored Jen Benka with the Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry."
viaTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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