Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
From Fragments to Fiction
Magician-like, the poet tunes language fragments from an out-of-print book to the pitch of a piece of political rhetoric, ordering the words to soothe, evoking rain. “What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and that he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.” So Wallace Stevens reminds us it is the poet’s responsibility to interpret the world. But what happens when the physical, emotional, and historical extend through …
Listen Aid
Guest Contributor: Dena Ratner Plugged into Clinic, your thirty-minute journey to work is colored by the band’s coke-induced fast tracks. What started out as a bleary-eyed trudge is transformed into matutinal elation as you’re gliding down the street past person after person, cars cars cars and building after building, everything is rocking with your aural jubilation As you climb up the stairs and come back forever / Summer’s in the house, untamed it was / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee until you arrive at work and barely remember how you …
Jericho Brown Writes What’s On His Mind
“I think we’ve been telling our students so long, ‘Write what you know. Write your lived experience,’ and I think our students have this idea that that means write about the time A, B, and C happened to me, but that’s not really it. It’s more, write what you can’t stop thinking about. Write what’s on your mind.”
