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One version, titled “when will my love return from the culture war?,” is 6-quatrains long. A second, for which we have a recorded performance, is four quatrains; there’s a variation on the second that seems to invite us to call it a sonnet. Callie added a version — organized in the quatrains — <a href="https://calyxpo.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/culture-warrior/">to their blog</a> on May 1, 2020. On November 19, 2020, Callie read the shorter version of the poem as part of a live-streamed reading given by eight poets. Callie was the fifth to read. We link the YouTube recording <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3CpFsTSskI">HERE</a>, and PoemTalk listeners are invited to watch and listen to our poem at 53 minutes into the group reading.</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">December 24, 2024</span></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="feed-icons"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10928/0/feed" class="feed-icon"><img src="/misc/feed.png" alt="Syndicate content" title="RSS - Callie Gardner" width="16" height="16" /></a></div> </section> <aside id="secondary" class="column sidebar second"> <div class="region region-right"> <div id="block-views-latest_posts-block_1" class="block block-views region-odd odd region-count-1 count-1"> <h2 class="title">Recently in Jacket2</h2> <div class="content"> <div class="view view-latest-posts view-id-latest_posts view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-3 view-latest-posts view-id-latest_posts view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-3"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <div id="node-17558" class="node node-type-review node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/reviews/weathering-storms-history">Weathering the storms of history</a></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="subtitle">On ‘In Inheritance of Drowning’ by Dorsía Smith Silva</h3><div class="author-and-type-wrapper"><div class="author-and-type"><a href="/content/georgi-de-rham">Georgiana de Rham</a></div></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-feature"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <figure><img src="https://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/imagecache/wide_main_column/de-Rham-Silva-banner.png" alt="" title="From left to right: the cover of “In Inheritance of Drowning,” Dorsía Smith Silva." class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left to right: the cover of “In Inheritance of Drowning,” Dorsía Smith Silva.</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-text"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><span>The political bent of the launch was apt; although </span><em>In Inheritance of Drowning</em><span> begins with Hurricane María, Smith Silva’s verse traverses the Atlantic Ocean to visit the Puerto Rican diaspora, address America’s history of colonialism, enslavement, and genocide, and draw poetic connections between climate change, American imperialism, and the intersections between social and environmental justice.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> <p style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>In Inheritance of Drowning<br /></em>Dorsía Smith Silva</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">CavanKerry Press 2024, 104 pages, $18, ISBN: 9781960327079</span></p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div id="node-17545" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/empty-rooms-poemtalk-204">To empty rooms (PoemTalk #204)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Horace Gregory, "Chorus for Survival"</h3><div class="podcast-series-byline"><a href="/content/poem-talk">PoemTalk</a></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-feature"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <figure><img src="https://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/imagecache/wide_main_column/Horace Gregory 3.jpg" alt="" title="Horace Gregory" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>Horace Gregory</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk-200-plus/PoemTalk-204_On-Horace-Gregorys-Chorus-for-Survival-5-and-11.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p><p>Al Filreis convened Cristos Kalli, Jon Hoel, and Henry Steinberg to talk about two poems about the once hugely famous and now mostly forgotten communist and communist-affiliated poet who thrived for decades but most notably in the 1930s. In the middle of the Depression decade — in the momentous year of 1935 — he published the book <em>Chorus for Survival</em> with Covici-Friede. Our group discussed two poems in the Chorus for Survival series — numbers 5 and 11. In 1944, Gregory traveled to Cambridge, Mass., to record some poems for the Harvard Vocarium, <a href="https://library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/static/poetry/listeningbooth/poets/gregory.html">performing six poems</a> include the two we discuss. Jon and Al had met up nearly a year before, discovered a common interest in Gregory, and have co-curated this episode.</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">January 27, 2025</span></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <div id="node-17537" class="node node-type-review node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/reviews/mining-black-history">Mining Black history</a></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="subtitle">On two docu-poetry collections</h3><div class="author-and-type-wrapper"><div class="author-and-type"><a href="/content/aiden-hunt">Aiden Hunt</a></div></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-feature"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <figure><img src="https://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/imagecache/wide_main_column/Mining Black history banner.jpg" alt="" title="From left to right: Alison C. Rollins’ book “Black Bell” and Sheila Carter-Jones’ book “Every Hard Sweetness.”" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left to right: Alison C. Rollins’ book “Black Bell” and Sheila Carter-Jones’ book “Every Hard Sweetness.”</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-text"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><span>“Documentary poetics is often lauded for its ability to articulate social injustices and advocate for civil rights,” writes award-winning poet Craig Santos Perez.</span><a name="_ftnref1" href="#_ftn1" title=""><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a><span> Two poetry collections published last year harness this ability and mine the African American archive to shine a light on evidence of past injustices in the hopes of a better future.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> <p style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Black Bell<br /></em>Alison C. Rollins</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Copper Canyon Press 2024, 136 pages, $22.00, ISBN 9781556597008<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Every Hard Sweetness<br /></em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sheila Carter-Jones<br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">BOA Editions 2024, 134 pages, $19.00, ISBN 9781960145123<br /><br /></span></p> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div>  </div>  </aside>  </div> </div> <footer class="site-wide"> <div class="inner"> <nav class="legal"> <ul class="copy"> <li>© 2025 Jacket2</li> <li>Kelly Writers House <br/> 3805 Locust Walk <br/> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6150</li> </ul> <ul class="menu"><ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first last"><a href="/content/terms-use" title="Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li> </ul></ul> </nav> <nav class="social-links"> <ul> <li class="social rss"><a href="/rss.xml">RSS Feed</a></li> <li class="social facebook"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Jacket2/137089136349405">Facebook</a></li> <li class="social twitter"><a href="http://twitter.com/jacket2mag">Twitter</a></li> </ul> </nav> <nav class="about"> <ul class="menu"><ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first"><a href="/about-us" title="About us">About Jacket2</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="/contact" title="Contact">Contact</a></li> <li class="leaf last"><a href="/j2-index" title="Index of Jacket 2 Content">J2 Index</a></li> </ul></ul> </nav> </div> </footer> <script type="text/javascript" src="/sites/all/modules/google_analytics/googleanalytics.js?a"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> <![CDATA[//><!]]> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> <![CDATA[//><!]]> </script> </body> </html>

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