Poem-a-Day - "And what is it to work with love?"

“Ordinary citizens are working on this issue, trying to create more awareness and more action to save the lake, and to come up with more rational water policy in Utah. And I thought that it would be good to lend my effort and the resources that I have to that work.” —Lisa Bickmore, 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (Utah)

Read more about Bickmore and her fellowship project, which will include publishing poems about the ecological crisis facing the Great Salt Lake, here. 

“A poem’s rhythm and its reading, and thus shades of meanings, all shift slightly depending on punctuation. The voice dances differently, particularly when poems are read aloud.” 

Read our latest enjambments interview with Sinan Antoon on Postcards from the Underworld, published this month through Seagull Books. 

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Join us tomorrow for the virtual launch of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, edited by 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows Luisa A. Igloria and Aileen Cassinetto, on Thursday, August 31, at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET. Hosted by the South San Francisco Public Library and cosponsored by the Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience (ICAR) at Old Dominion University. This event is free and open to the public. Register here. (Sponsored)