Sunday at 4, Oct 2, I'll be at the Katonah Library to hear Dana Levin.
...the long hunt and the worm found
in the battered petunias — every
morning in summer
that last summer
before the bees collapsed and the seas rose up
to say ..
Come hear the rest #poetry #Katonahpoetry

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This week on #HarrietBooks Poetry Foundation, reviews of work by Jenny Liou JennyLiou (@kayapress), Chen Chen 兔兒神 (@boaeditions), dg nanouk okpik (@WavePoetry), and Eugene Ostashevsky (@NYRB_Imprints). bit.ly/3a4YS8N

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'All gates open to whatever energy is trying to flow through them--the way blood's arrival and departure sluices through the heart.' -Dana Levin, 'Pledge'

I cannot stop rereading this line.

.Dana Levin is guest judge for the 2023 Honickman First Book Prize from The American Poetry Review! Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the prize in 1999.

Learn more and submit by Oct. 1, 2022:

americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

Hilary Mantel's description of the Cromwells trying to get their family cat down from a tree is genius (from THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT).