
Solmaz Sharif
“When it comes to the language of the powerful, I have zero qualms in reclaiming maimed language. My goal…
September 22, 2016“When it comes to the language of the powerful, I have zero qualms in reclaiming maimed language. My goal…
September 22, 2016“I believe I have the ownership to write about anything that I want. However, I also have the obligation…
September 22, 2016“…witness for me is the audacity to live and write during these times where my having breath frightens people”…
April 7, 2016“I was a shy child who saw early that there are, and have always been, many worlds inside this…
April 7, 2016“The question for me is not ‘What is the poem about?’ but, rather, ‘Can you dance to it?’” David Yezzi…
March 2, 2016“The secret to being a good reader is to avoid performing.” Jamaal May is the author Hum (Alice James…
March 2, 2016“In life, there is mystery. The mysteries are no more profound in medicine than in poetry. I question, and…
February 4, 2016“In my poems, that’s exactly what I want to create: a land on which to walk and a body…
February 4, 2016“Writing poetry has probably been the best teacher for me learning to pray.” Jericho Brown is the recipient of…
January 6, 2016“Poems and prayers both endeavor…to celebrate, investigate, mourn, or heal the mystery of existence.” Malachi Black is the author…
January 6, 2016“I’ve always thought of them, of the poems, as being very private investigations and negotiations of a space that…
December 2, 2015“We write poems to woo those we love (including those we’ll never meet…)” Kim Addonizio was born in Washington,…
December 2, 2015“Rhyme doesn’t bite. Ignore anyone who tells you rhyme (or meter or sonnets etc.) is against the rules.” A.E.…
November 5, 2015“Playing with sound like that keeps a poem on its toes. But, for me, it can’t only be about…
November 5, 2015“The irony is that, at least for me, it’s only distance that grants the clarity necessary to be able…
September 30, 2015“I simply want to make the claim that the mind is formed by the shape of the land, by…
September 30, 2015