Poetry

Out Loud

On this episode, spoken-word poet and professor Joshua Bennett shares his love for the art form, highlighting its capacity for community-building and liberation.
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Poem | Baptism

“Can you see, outside the church window, / the small corner of opened earth, / where land mixes with violets and old bones?”
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Poem | Idiom

“Mary didn’t merely bring Him forth / in winter words and murk of night, / but idiom as bright as birth: / She gave Him to the light.”
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Poem | Bats

“Any mistake’s no big deal as they / do things their own way, sleeping // all day in attic and eave”
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Off-Kilter

‘Midwood’ is both intimate and distanced. It offers us access to dreams and erotic experience; it keeps us at a remove through irony and syntactical oddity.
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Poem | Ducks

“Past the threshold of the estate nothing is allowed to go / to picturesque ruin, and nothing runs riot.”
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