Here's The Adroit Journal's 2nd essay on the impact of 9/11 on American poetry. Thank you, Kevin Prufer, for contributing! If you haven't read Wayne Miller's piece from yesterday, you can find it on our website. Look for Sandra Meek's essay tomorrow theadroitjournal.org/2021/09/07/sep…

Here's The Adroit Journal's 3rd and final piece on 9/11 and American poetry. This is your must-read of the week: Sandra Meek's lucid take on the "double canon" and the direction American poetry has taken in the last 20 years. Persea Books theadroitjournal.org/2021/09/08/twi…

Grateful to David Roderick and The Adroit Journal for soliciting this piece re 9/11, jingoism, the “poetry wars’” demise, Whiteness, environmental devastation, and the richness of American poetry today, with shouts out to @jerichobrown Craig Santos Perez Patricia Smith and more! Berry College

"From twenty years out, I see 9/11, its attending shock and desire for community, as a turning point in American poetry...." Sandra Meek takes a closer look at 9/11's impact on American Poetry. theadroitjournal.org/2021/09/08/twi…

Every round of submissions, I end up purchasing books by poets whose work we don't take. I love the poems so much that I must have their books. And hope they send more work our way. This is just to say: even a no can include a kind of yes. Keep sending your poems into the world.

Pat!!! It’s time everyone was reading remarkable poet (and person) patrick_ , truly one of our greatest. nytimes.com/2021/10/28/boo…

Be sure to read today’s Verse Daily (@versedaily.bsky.social) poem, “Even-Steven, v." by Sandra Meek Sandra Meek from issue 19.2! versedaily.org/2022/evensteve…

Flashback is in the details—from #AWP22 to fascinating conversation “Catastrophe and Survival” had with @brendalhillman @aimeenez @AAHedgeCoke & Camille Dungy!

To be this world’s child is to be a hairline crack, a slot canyon orphaned both of matter and light: not the immensity of what’s held apart. — Sandra Meek “Zion” PS 88.3, Fall 2014

In our latest Marginalia, Stephen Kampa to Sandra Meek's (Sandra Meek) brilliant "Even-Steven, v." with an original "Word-Study" poem on "meek" itself. 32poems.com/prose/12134/ #poetry #poetrycommunity #litmag #NationalPoetryMonth #stephenkampa

Last day of Advanced Poetry workshop with these amazing humans—I will miss them! #berrycollegecreativewriting Berry College

Abortion is now illegal in Missouri. No exceptions for rape or incest. Right before I was elected, I met a pregnant 11 year old who has been raped by her uncle. What about HER rights?

"Dear Highest Price, Dear Bear the Brunt & Double / Blow, Dear HeLa Cells Still Doubling, Dear / Disproportionately Impacted." Read a new poem by Tiana Clark: on.theatln.tc/McLqaDS

I firmly believe language fails us as much as it saves us, especially in this maddening moment. I wrote this poem as an epistle to write back to my body which has always felt under threat. The research & stats devastated me & reminded me about this history of resistance.

Rome pride! Chase Oliver

“To mold torso to fork’s crown—to log-wood, blood-wood, old growth or not, from cock’s crow to owl’s hoot; to hold off boys—" —from “Common-Potoo, v.” by Sandra Meek, from our Summer 2022 issue, featuring paintings by Martha Hughes: bit.ly/tsrsummer22

I had the honor of talking with Jamaica Kincaid recently about her famous prose poem/short-short “Girl”: “I had been reading Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘In the Waiting Room,’” she said, “and it was as if she [Bishop] opened the door and said ‘come in.’ Then I wrote ‘Girl.’”

I've read a lot of statements of purpose for MFA programs and I've collected some tips. Thought I'd make it into a thread while I was at it. Here we go... 🧵 (feel free to RT!)

If you're in Seattle, join us and Alice James Books at Razzi's on Howell Street for poems and pizza! We'll be there Friday night, 6-8! #awpoffsite #awp23offsite #offsitereading

We celebrate this year's SPRING EQUINOX with Issue 8! Featuring work by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Gabby Gilliam, KateLynn Hibbard, Bob Hicok, James Lenfestey, Sandra Meek, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nalini Nadkarni, Kathryn Petruccelli, and Vivian Faith Prescott. otherwisecollective.com/current-issue