Poet, translator, cofounded The Plum Review, TPR reading series, Plum Writers Retreat, taught poetry & creative writing at George Washington U. MFA from UMD.
A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.
“Isn't that / like us, going from place to / place, looking to be alive?”
— Victoria Chang
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This poem appeared in The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.
@_janezwart_ @BearReview Jane! Another brilliant complex beautiful poem of walking the world as it pulls us here and there while we try to balance our own needs and those of our children. Ace of a poem. 💥
Happy pub day to BLADE BY BLADE by DANUSHA LAMÉRIS (@DanushaLameris)! These poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we’ve forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again. https://t.co/Q6KAMk6qdv
Great reading tonight @collwksbooks by @JennyGeorge123, Catherine Barnett & Anne Haven McDonnell. What a privilege to be in the audience listening to this trio. #poetry
Happy pub day to AFTER IMAGE by JENNY GEORGE! In scenes that hover between the ordinary, the imagined, and the unknowable, delivered with George’s sly, meticulous simplicity, AFTER IMAGE asks what lingers in the face of death—and what falls away. #poetry
한 강 Han Kang – awarded the 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature – was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before, at the age of nine, moving with her family to Seoul. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected throughout her entire literary production.