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Archive of Our Own (AO3):
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People! Friends of mine! There are many awesome vidders signed up for the VVC auction this year, and I am going to be bidding on
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The Republic of Poetry is divided into three parts. The first is about Chile: history, coup, repression, resistance. The second is a series of elegies for poets and other artists. The third is about the creative process itself, the alchemy that makes art out of event ( Read more... )

In 2011, Nikky Finney won the National Book Award for Head Off and Split (from which I posted a poem a couple of years back). Someone recently pointed me to a video of her acceptance speech for the award, which I had never seen -- and which I can now highly recommend ( Read more... )

Hat tip to
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Festivid treat for
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We make ourselves free by the choices we make. I MIGHT BE A LITTLE EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

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Found via Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. From the site: "Minal Hajratwala is a poet, publisher, author, and writing coach/founder of Write Like a Unicorn. Her collection Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment was published in 2014 by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. Her nonfiction epic Leaving India: My ( Read more... )

This poem about Boston's Old South Meeting House (Wikipedia) was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Imagine Your Parks grant.

Ignite the fire in us.

Old South Meeting HouseWe draw breath from brick ( Read more... )

Because I can't say it better, I will steal from the back of the book: Natasha Trethewey describes Hum as "concerned with what's beneath the surfaces of things-the unseen that eats away at us or does the work of sustaining us," "a meditation on the machinery of living, an extended ode to sound and silence ( Read more... )