Poem-a-Day - "Seeking, I think, a light that waits"

Please join us in welcoming Divya Victor as the August Poem-a-Day guest editor. Victor is the author of Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021), winner of the 2022 PEN/Open Book Award and the winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The collection was also a finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry. Read and listen to a Q&A with Victor about her Poem-a-Day curatorial approach. Read poems by Victor: 

“Threshold”
“Blood/Soil”
 

Celebrate the beginning of this month with poets born in August: 

“Time Study” by Marvin Bell (August 3, 1937)
“August Moonrise” by Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884)
“A Tale” Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897)
“Paths” Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893)
“Mirabeau Bridge” by Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880)
“Girls On the Town, 1946” by Rita Dove (August 28, 1952)

John Lee Clark: Disability Poetics and Classic Verse

“From this perspective, disability cannot be reduced to a problem. Instead, it is a mystery—not in the sense of something puzzling or unknowable, but as something alive and moving.” 

As part of his July Poem-a-Day curation, John Lee Clark selected ten public domain poems for the series, for which he wrote ten accompanying “About This Poem” statements. Read Clark’s insights on these historical poems and Disability poetics.