Poem-a-Day - "We travel carrying our words"

“In the era of permanent wars, those of us who cannot, or choose not to, look away, confront a flood of images, faces, and figures, most of which disappear into the black holes of history. Those that do not are repackaged and rebranded by triumphalist narratives. The sequence poem is a space that allows the poetic ‘I’ to stand before the ruins of time and history and to try to salvage the shards.” 

Read our latest enjambments interview with Sinan Antoon on Postcards from the Underworld, published this month through Seagull Books. Read more about Antoon, including a selection of poems from the book, on Poets.org: 

“Letter to al-Mutanabbi”
“Dismemberment”
“Autumn in Heaven”

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Anaïs Duplan presents Decolonizing Your Creative Voice, a two-part online workshop that will ask participants to identify their own ethics and values, interrogating how they do/not align with dominant ideals, in order to more mindfully approach their work and loosen any tendencies to conform. Sunday, August 20, and Sunday, August 27, from 2 to 6 p.m. ET. Register here. (Sponsored)