What Sparks Poetry:
Katey Funderbergh and Nicholas Ritter on Building Community
"This program proves to me, again and again, that poetry is a liberatory force. Prisons shouldn’t exist, but each time I’m in the classroom with our students, I remember that this craft is an avenue for free expression and self-exploration. The poems allow me to connect with the students, to share my own memories, dreams, struggles, and to relate to them about both the content of the poems we read, and the content of the poems they write." |
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This April, Poetry Daily would like to turn the spotlight on YOU, the loving READER of poetry. What is it that makes you give yourself over to a poem? Which poem in Poetry Daily made you think, surprised you, moved you, or changed your world just a little? Choose any poem from our archive of more than two thousand poems since 2018 and tell us about it in 100 words or so. We’re not expecting a “professional” answer but one from your heart, nothing is too trivial—for a chance to be featured in our groundbreaking What Sparks Poetry series and win a free book! |
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Grace Byron on Joyce Mansour
"Mansour’s tremendous voice still sparkles. She howls like a banshee, commanding orgasms and throbbing convulsions among the tombstones. Love is not a directive here. It’s an obsession. Down the hatch, into the glittering maw we go, lost all the way down. It’s time for a tryst, the reader and the sign, the symbol and its lust. Perhaps her words can offer a unifying cry, la petite mort, one that stands for more than simple desire. The kind of erotics that breaks us open instead of merely hollowing us out."
via THE POETRY PROJECT |
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