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I always tell my students that a good poem is an act of discovery—and for that discovery to be emotionally and intellectually honest, then you need to surprise yourself, you need to live in that space of uncertainty—this is part of negative capability, part of duende, part of what Emily Jungmin Yoon describes as poetry’s […]
Last night was nothing shy of poetic bliss. Laura, Claire, Michael—the poets and readers in attendence—thanks for making it so. knife | fork | book UPCOMING: TONIGHT MOEZ SURANI. 01/26 CONCETTA PRINCIPE RONNA BLOOM. 02/02 AARON KREUTER JIM NASON. Pictured: poets Laura Kathryn McRae, Claire Caldwell, and Michael Prior Photos: KIRBY *Shane Neilson
@itsakirby @cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 "o, baby, this one's from the heart…"https://t.co/j6TCHmY9uG#tonight #ThursNightPoets — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 19, 2017
THURSDAY NIGHT POETS JANUARY 19TH CLAIRE CALDWELL Invasive Species LAURA K. McRAE Distributaries MICHAEL PRIOR Model Disciple Doors 6:30PM Poetry 7-ish Claire Caldwell is a poet and editor living in Toronto. Her first book is Invasive Species, part of the Buckrider Books imprint at Wolsak and Wynn. Claire was the 2013 winner of the Malahat […]
Our first threesome.@cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 JAN 19TH#ThursNightPoets@RicksKensington #poetry #bookshop #toronto pic.twitter.com/8ftPoeqNk8 — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 8, 2017
So, what rocked my world? The remarkable power of ‘naming.’ MOEZ SURANI‘s book-length poem ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация (BookThug, 2016), lists the code names for UN miltary interventions from 1945 to present that could easily be mistaken for the titles of children’s picture books. At once absurdly funny and utterly grotesque, the […]
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