Poems Inspired By Music, Jos Charles June Poem-a-Day Guest Editor, and more

I’m a big fan of Bob Kaufman, so I would direct [readers] to “I Have Folded My Sorrows” by Kaufman. He was one of the first, or nearly the first, contemporary poet I read. I was being a California kid, I guess, drawn to the Beats. And it absolutely just changed what I thought was possible within this space of a poem. It’s oracular, yet it’s gentle. It’s got this kind of permanent, chiseled on stone quality, and yet it’s as light as the air.

Jos Charles is the author of feeld (Milkweed Editions, 2018), a winner of the National Poetry Series and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Read and listen to Charles discuss her curatorial approach and more on Poets.org. 
 

In honor of the 100th anniversary of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, read and share the piece, which was written on a June morning in 1922.