Poem-a-Day - "What I love is a heaven that vexes me"

 
 
 
May 29, 2024
 

jewish american heritage month

How did she mend thoughts that snapped like strained violin strings?

Read poems by Yerra Sugarman

Sonnet from Alef to Bet (2)
[When she was fenced off even from herself]” 
[Night after night, what she saw in her sleep]” 
 
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Discover more poems, essays, and archival material as we conclude Jewish American Heritage Month:

Had the Vines Budded, Were the Pomegranates in Bloom” by S. Brook Corfman
Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship” by Camonghne Felix
Mazel Tov” by Jessica Jacobs 
perspectives on the second world war” by Irena Klepfisz
The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand 
 
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Alexander and Harper
From our archives: Former Chancellor Elizabeth Alexander and Michael S. Harper
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“In a sense, this book is a little like a sacred forest, where the myth of eternal winter and frozen words plays hide-and-seek with itself.”

Read our latest enjambments interview with Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale on Holy Winter (New Directions, 2024). 
 
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#poetrynearyou pick of the week

Don’t miss the world premiere of Lamenting Earth, a musical collaboration centered around Claire Wahmanholm’s poem “O,” which won second place in the Academy of American Poets’ inaugural Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. Join composer Vivian Fung, the Jasper String Quartet, tenor Nicholas Phan, and pianist Myra Huang on Thursday, May 30, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET, at Mervin Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023. (Sponsored)

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poetry coalition

This summer, the Poetry Coalition, an alliance of poetry organizations across the nation, invites you to celebrate the impact poetry has on our communities through writing retreats, intergenerational workshops, archival oral history projects, the distribution of writing prompts to hundreds of thousands of readers, and more. 
 
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jobs for poets

  • The Poetry Coalition is seeking paid, part-time fellows at CantoMundo, Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po), Letras Latinas, Mass Poetry, O, Miami, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, and Urban Word. Individuals with a passion for poetry and an interest in arts administration can learn more and apply here by July 3.
     
  • The Strand Bookstore in New York, New York, is seeking a full-time retail floor manager
     
  • Feminist Press in New York, New York, is seeking a full-time senior editor

last week’s poem-a-day

Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections on Poets.org:

May 19: “The Excursion” by Tu Fu
May 20: “Kaōnōn” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
May 21: “Last” by Anjoli Roy
May 22: “To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train” by Bao Phi
May 23: “Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker” by Aimee Suzara
May 24: “Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale” by Rajiv Mohabir
May 25: “Midmorning” by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, translated by Carlie Hoffman
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