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What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Ecopoetry Now, poets from Canada, Mexico, and the US engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the author and an excerpt from their essay.
And the world, entire
would load
before your eyes

And there's no more
And caches clear and all songs stream at once
The sound delayed, avatars retired

And all seasons complete at once
with the earth tilted on its axis no more
The weekend's lightning, languorous

arms stretched after lunch—you can't take more
And the robes are soaked; why,
they can't absorb another drop

and what's more
washes over unimpeded now
And there's more

The morning after
all justice meted out
all grudges would be lost

in the cloud
And power would go out
And all leisure would be more

radical then
And the fight would go out of you
with the world at your fingertips

guiding your hand
to the ends of luxury
It doesn't get any better than this

there's more
of the same
And who could want more
from the book HOMES / Coffee House Press
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Moheb Soliman (Great Lakes, MN) on Ecopoetry Now

"This brings you to 'On the water;' this is where the poem dwells. Trying to dream about water, or the opposite—sleep on water. A poem as oblivious as you could get to the complaints above. There are other poems in the book that are more critically, consciously, 'ecopoetic.' When you were asked months ago to choose one and discuss your earth-centered poetics through it, a dozen others came to mind—writing that hit the nail on the head of the horse and beat it dead."
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Mary-Alice Daniel Wins the 2022 Yale Younger Poets Prize

"'This book should come with a warning—and it does, with three in fact,' said Armantrout in announcing Daniel's manuscript as the winner. 'The first section opens with the generic symbol for caution; the second with the warning sign for radioactivity; the third with the biohazard symbol...This is 'Flowers of Evil' for the 21st century. Buckle up.'"

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