What Sparks Poetry:
Jennifer Atkinson on "Local History"
The island I called Hag Island in this poem isn’t, after the ten or so years since I wrote 'Local History,' an island anymore, not even at full high tide. What was island has become something more like a hump in the marsh. The salt brook that runs through has shallowed out and shifted. Everyday erosion and hurricane winds will do that." |
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"9 Poems for This Fraught Moment"
Writers and editors from around The Atlantic's newsroom choose poems to revisit and savor. "Poems hold power. As my colleague Hannah Giorgis put it: 'Whether by conveying the scale of national grief during a pandemic, or exposing the relentlessness of racism, poetry has already created new ways of experiencing, and surviving, life’s darkest chapters.'"
via THE ATLANTIC |
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