Abonado asked me about how to make poetry and politics play with each other. My thoughts in this area are very much evolving. Here’s a slice of it:
JH: “I think the art of a poem is being on time, right?
Abonado asked me about how to make poetry and politics play with each other. My thoughts in this area are very much evolving. Here’s a slice of it:
JH: “I think the art of a poem is being on time, right?
It’s made from love and rage and the shredded trains of an unrealizeable future, angel ligaments, bus rides, friends on bikes, cruel glittering snow, and all the rust and all the sparking haywire power structures of Buffalo.
The Cleveland Review of Books published an online version of my poem, “Breath Gradients, Block by Block” on election day. Bittersweet is an understatement.