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January 16, 2023 

Ars Poetica
Nabila Lovelace

Copyright © 2023 by Nabila Lovelace. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 16, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“I wrote this poem during a seven-day writing challenge with a good homie—shoutout to community. Objects have meaning even when they are couched in the banality of games. In the ‘Ars Poetica’ is a question worth daily consideration: what are we willing to do with language? Where are we willing to make, and unmake, with what we say?”
—Nabila Lovelace
Nabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens-born poet whose family is originally from Trinidad and Nigeria. The author of Sons of Achilles (YesYes Books, 2018), Nabila lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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