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Annie Allen had won Brooks the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950.
Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha
I understood immediately that certain things—attention, great energy, total concentration, tenderness, risk, beauty—were elements of poetry. And I understood that these elements did not grow as grass grows from a seed, naturally and unstoppably, but rather were somehow gathered and discovered by the poet, and placed inside the poem. —Mary Oliver
Bill Morgan • The Meditator's Dilemma: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Obstacles and Revitalizing Your Practice
“Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich
Maria Popova • The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
I’ll hold all your terrific ugly.