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By Wang PingAn Introduction to the folio.
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By River 瑩瑩 DandelionOn memory, oral history, and honoring elders.
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By River 瑩瑩 DandelionOn translating oral history into poetry.
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My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.
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What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation?
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If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.
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I want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
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When asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemBy John Lee ClarkA Deaf Blind poet doesn’t like to read sitting up. A Deaf Blind poet likes to read Braille magazines on the john. A Deaf Blind poet is in the habit of composing nineteenth-century letters and pressing Alt+S. A Deaf Blind poet is a terrible...
- PoemBy Suzi F. GarciaA muster of peacocks show off their tails, but instead of feathers, knives. And smoke where their voices should be. I breathe gray until it fills my throat, choking on tulle. On the loudspeaker, a mutation of a voiceover, a...
- PoemBy Raymond Antrobus1
My ear amps whistle like they are singing
to Echo, goddess of noise,
the raveled knot of tongues,
of blaring birds, consonant crumbs
of dull doorbells, sounds swamped
in my misty hearing aid tubes.
Gaudí believed in holy sound
and built a cathedral to contain it,
pulling...
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Poetry was founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
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