–Kim Addonizio, Poetry, March 2000
It’s Kim Addonizio’s birthday, so read the rest of the poem. Check out her work at Voltage Poetry.
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(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
Above, a portrait of 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner and art critic W.S. Di Piero by Paul Resika. Music, art, and literature converge in the June 2012 issue of Poetry, just released online. Lou Reed reflects on his teacher and mentor Delmore Schwartz, Will Butler of the Arcade Fire equates his poetry taste with that of a “cranky old man,” and Will Oldham admits his resentfulness for poetry-lovers (you’ll have to grab a copy of the print version to access this piece). Plus Mary Ruefle, Kim Addonizio, William Logan, Dean Young, Ruth Stone, Adrienne Rich, and Rita Dove, and many others.
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Sundays, too,
the soldiers get up early, and put on their fatigues in the blue-
black day. Black milk. Black gold. Texas tea.
Into the valley of Halliburton rides the infantry–
Why does one month have to be the cruelest,
can’t they all be equally cruel?
–Poetry, January 2009
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
