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Motherland

Mia Dimina

When Jesus forgot to pick me up from ballet practice & I waited & cried on a rough green couch I blamed the Christmas Eve candles that wound the light into cylinders like Grandma's hair curlers.

from the journal matcha house

Profile: "Within the first 10 minutes of meeting Bianca Stone, we’re talking about dreams and the subconscious..."
(Times Argus)
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https://www.timesargus.com/news/local/bianca-stone-carries-on-a-legacy-of-writing-as-vermont-poet-laureate/article_32aaead1-508c-54be-8998-5de8a262dc25.html

Essay: "Athens, where I have spent much of my adult life, is home to a Byron Street, and a neighbourhood, Vyronas, also named after the poet."
(Telegraph)
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/why-byrons-a-punchline-in-britain-yet-a-god-in-greece/

Essay: "When an old friend asked me recently if I didn’t find the idea of 'the speaker' to be somewhat underexamined, I was surprised by the force of the YES that rose up in me."
(NYT)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/books/review/on-poetry-who-is-the-speaker.html

Conversation: "I was interested in what lingers, what remains, how each living person is a remnant, fragment of an impossible whole (family, diaspora, and so on)."
(International Examiner)
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https://iexaminer.org/poet-diana-khoi-nguyen-shares-about-her-new-collection-root-fractures-and-its-alternative-family-histories/

Essay: "Oftentimes, a reader asks what it’s like to publish a memoir with family members in it. How do you seek permission? What do you do when someone in your family protests your storytelling?"
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/on-memoir-permission-and-the-thorny-terrain-of-writing-about-family/

Interview: "I didn’t feel like an editor at all. I felt more like a steward, like a caretaker, like I was only trying to make sure that every plant was in its right spot to get enough light."
(The Nation)
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ada-limon-interview/

Announcement: Brandon Som has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
(The Pulitzer Prizes)
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https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/brandon-som

Report: "After celebrating its 50th anniversary last year... Copper Canyon Press has announced new leadership."
(PW)
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/94962-ryo-yamaguchi-named-publisher-at-copper-canyon-press.html

Interview: "There is a positive coldness that sets in when I write... I think it developed over time as a response to events that were too difficult to manage as confession."
(Poetry Society of America)
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https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/interviews/an-interview-with-diane-seuss?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR12MphexSG0iBuaiqrumXW_inUA5-rKMuNfLVUPBdu-UBNYBZYOkotaZ6A_aem_AYK604kFqyBzF0TrHJoholctNLToVWv11DzesDZaywRNzFJn0i1UyQqKbs7GUWzNBWSTwUtPM5sC2l5kRCTtYLgI

Announcement: "Governor Phil Scott has named... Bianca Stone the next Vermont Poet Laureate."
(Addison County Independent)
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https://www.addisonindependent.com/2024/05/02/bianca-stone-will-be-the-next-vermont-poet-laureate/

What Sparks Poetry

Ecopoetry Now

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems.

In Ecopoetry Now, invited poets engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders. In poems and poetics statements, their work describes important local differences, including bioregion and language, as well as a shared concern for the Earth. We hope to highlight poetry’s integral role in creating and sustaining a broadly ecological imagination that is most alive when biologically, culturally, and linguistically diverse.

This week's issue: Jessica E. Johnson on “Of Daylight Saving Time, MyFitnessPal, and Indoor/Outdoor Cats.”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

May 11, 2024

25 days after I am born

Remica Bingham-Risher

Those weeks after spiriting me into the world, my mother watches the news, looks over at my father too frequently, calls his name each time he heads to another room—delirious in her exhaustion and fear—where was he, would he disappear? And the little girl, what world was this for her to enter?

May 10, 2024

On a Farm Near Junction City

Nate Duke

while a cat I've never met scales my chest, nestles into sleep. A kind of recompense I think, for lives we didn't choose—because winter's animal bed needed fresh straw, or the woodstove in our bunkhouse grew cold, and somebody had to get up and stoke it.

May 9, 2024

Reading Black Poems to White Audiences: A How-To Guide

Cameron Barnett

pull the cord tighter till he says it, tighter still until he feels it in his bones—nigga—and when he gets hot enough start a fire, nigga

May 8, 2024

Leaffish

Etienne Marsolet

Laurel leaf seedpod helix of spine shadeloving dark frond blown-over seacoast...

May 7, 2024

Dear Mothership,

Marcus Wicker

Earth is reeking. And we obsidian-backed, winged cling to the funk in a language that never fails: Peace vibes.

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