Then the Fog / filled the fields. The way forward filled with the / way / back. Are those humans out there or / just hollows filled with mercury & ash. / When it comes into view the mountain is / cleaved open. / The silver is picked out. / Thousands of them with their instruments up / against the face of / the rock. Their bodies break & they are replaced. / Is it BC or AD.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/jorie-graham/then-the-fog
Poet Jorie Graham Calls On Hollywood To Resist Censorship And Distribute ‘The Apprentice’ Film
#Culture #Politics #DonaldTrump #JorieGraham #MichelleGoldberg #NYTimes #TheApprentice
https://deadline.com/2024/06/poet-jorie-graham-hollywood-support-the-apprentice-film-1235974617/
it’s raining here — a poem by Jorie Graham speaks of rain:
“then all these platinums braiding its freedoms,/coursing to find every crevice, loosen every/ last stitch &/ go in. It will touch everything. It will make/more of the/more.”
compare walt whitman’s “song of myself” from “leaves of grass“ with this poem by jorie graham (see below).
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version
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#WaltWhitman
#JorieGraham https://mastodon.online/@iraantlers/109376137601515795
Financial Times: Maria Crawford: Best Postry Books of 2023
#AmyAcre / #LeontiaFlynn / #JorieGraham / #IshionHutchinson / #BenLerner
https://www.yearendlists.com/2023/maria-crawford-best-postry-books-of-2023
„The American experiment will end in 2030 she said
looking into the cards,
the charts, the stars, the mathematics of it, looking
into our palms, into all of our
palms, into the leaves at the
bottom of
the empty cup – searching its emptiness, its piles of dead
bodies or is it grass at the edge
(…)“
#saturdaypoem #samstagslyrik #JorieGraham #poem #poetry #womenwriters
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Time Frame’ · LRB 21 April 2022 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n08/jorie-graham/time-frame
The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
Prayer by Jorie Graham
“Mother & Child (The Road at the Edge of the Field)” #poetry by #JorieGraham
scroll #poem below — w/o original line breaks bc format — deep thx @Jorie_Graham2
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