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National Poetry Month
The Power of Poetry
by Flavia Cosma for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Man knows much more than he understands. Alfred Adler, 1870 – 1937 A butterfly without wings would be just a poor insect moving with difficulty. Its oversized, colored wings make all the difference. A butterfly soars, dances, kisses beautiful flowers, it enchants us and makes us…
When Poems Are Rooms
by Onjana Yawnghwe for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Poems are places for the mind, and as places mark you, so does poetry. Yet the mind is currently occupied, table for one. If the mind is a room, there would be no floor space, the shelves crowded with pictures of strangers, loose wires, and odd…
Language, Travel, Eros, Being: How the Airplane, Structured Like a Language Is “A World of Poetry”
by Adeena Karasick for National Poetry Month, April 2020 As a New York based, Canadian poet, performer, lecturer, committed to a poetics of diaspora, nomadicism, or as bill bissett says “yesmadicism,” I have found myself on a lot of airplanes. Coincidentally, the publication of this article in honor of National Poetry Month coincides with the…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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