![]() ![]() All poets negotiate it despite constraints, we urge ourselves toward a kind of reckoning, again and again, by means of our tenacious word-work. Yet, this sublime contest between what might arise as artful revelation and what we must (or should) surrender to silence is the very matrix of poetry. A keen tension exists between all we dare, or will ourselves, to know and express and what seemingly lies beyond our vatic capacity. “I am life, and life loves life.” - Diane AckermanĬapaciousness defines the spirit of art, limited though we poets might be by the provinces of language and its logics. ![]() “What is the imperative? Life!” - Sharan Strange Blending Heaven and Earth: Kamilah Aisha Moon’s “Furious Blooming” ![]()
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