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From Brian Turner’s My Life as a Foreign Country
From Meg Day’s “And Again, Today.”
https://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/story/_/id/18502315/moving-forward-poetry-prose
When people say they hate pigeons, I want to ask them if they hate themselves, too. Does it prick the well of your loathing? Do they make you feel dirty and ashamed?
Michelle Tea in “Pigeon Manifesto,” from Against Memoir.
Poems about the end times, poems about today.
Available September 28 from Washington Writers Publishing House.
Let’s be honest about our culture and say that anyone who makes us remember we are naked animals under these clothes is dangerous.
CAConrad, from “Somatic Poetry Exercuse: Catheters for Sanity”
A limerick for University of Baltimore’s MFA in creative writing and publishing program by (MFA candidate) Judith Krummeck.
“If I went to jail I’d live rent-free but there is no way to avoid making white people richer
A prison is a plantation made of stone & steel”
From “C.R.E.A.M.” by Danez Smith.
- Sappho
My second book, You Cannot Save Here, drops today. This one is a collection of poems about how we get on with our lives when they days around us feel apocalyptic.
Why read poetry?
“[I]n prisons poetry books are so coveted they are the first to be stolen from the library.”
From “Why Read Poetry” by Pascale Petit – read at http://ideas.aeon.co/viewpoints/pascale-petit-on-why-read-poetry