On Poetry
Poetry
Is How We
Speak Ourselves
Into Existence.
Copyright © 2017 by Andru Defeye. From Illicit (2017). Used with the permission of the poet.
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2022
The 2022–2023 Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem
Inspired by our 2021–22 cohort, sixteen regional poet laureate fellows from our 2022–23 cohort composed another exquisite corpse examining the role of a laureate in the community. Each laureate fellow received only what the poet before them had written and had to write a stanza responding to that. The starting questions were: What is a poet laureate? What does one do?
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On Falling
Sometimes when night falls
it drifts gently to the ground silently
the way dandelions or bubbles do
a blanket over sleeping children
Other times
It falls like fine china from shelves
weakened over years
or bricks dropped off of skyscrapers
2017