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National Poetry Month
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…
Poetry and the Condition of Communication
by Adebe DeRango-Adem for National Poetry Month, April 2020 It is understood by most that medical doctors save lives—and I cannot overemphasize the critical importance of our frontline health workers at this time. Yet I continue to believe that writers (creative writers, at that) also have the power to heal societies. While World Poetry Day…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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