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I know how it feels, born as I've been into these rotting times, as into sin.
In Conversation w/ Poet of the Week 💙 Cole Swensen I love how your poems trust perception to be stranger than we assume. I’d also love to know how close you are with nature, if it occupies a big part of your life?
If I analyze the grammar of your existence, I do not have to exist myself.
Poet of the Week 💙 Cole Swensen Experience her work guided by her voice as it feels as it was written 🎙️ A recording of *each* poem read aloud by the poet themselves - on our site for you 💙
Hear our Poet of the Week 💙 Cole Swensen read this poem *to you* as you follow along with her 🎙️ featured on our site alongside *all* of her poems.
poetry prompt of the week: choose two flowers & write the conversation they would have.
Chatting w/ POTW 💙 Derek JG Williams Ordinary, sufficient love juxtaposed with greatness. And you’re a father yourself now, with a father who gets “smaller” each visit. A lot of us are writing about our fathers, and our own fatherhood. What do you think we’re/you’re reaching for?
In Conversation w/ Derek JG Williams 💙 Our Poet of the Week There’s a lot of humor in your poems too. Has that been a conscious choice for you over the years, to have humor present in your poems? What does it do for you?
some small tangible things with immense intangible weight
What can I tell you? It was a summer that seemed to be making history — their personal history
"...This place is fucked, baby & I bet you think it's the world." It's likely I am the world.
With the grief of being left, A dog bereft. Right now, a car is parking.
In Conversation w/ Cyndi Thompson 🌀 “If depressed, drop yourself & start a family. This place is fucked, baby & I bet you think it’s the world.” What’s your relationship w/ humor, does it let you explore the grimness of our world in a way complete seriousness wouldn’t?
Obviously he was a symbol for your regret. Cydni Thompson 💙 our Poet of the Week
In Conversation w/ Cydni Thompson 💙 “All Over” sets the the sky-sized climate catastrophe against a financial catastrophe—the debt collector whose email subject line is your name. Tell us about marrying the personal & the political here? How conscious are you of these choices while writing?
