Solmaz Sharif on PoetryNow

 

Today we're excited to release Solmaz Sharif's new poem "Persistence of Vision with Gwendolyn Brooks" on PoetryNow. The poem begins:

In the rearview, fog extinguishes the hills of new
money—mansions on acres away from road or sight.
Their architected privacy, windows to look out at
a land that won't look back. The fog's secure drapery.
It's space to dance through they buy and what one
might call "dappled light" moving across their acres, light
through their oaks moving over their mares, brushed to a
       sheen.

Listen to the full episode below, and enjoy!