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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 id="node-17418" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/colors-death-poemtalk-193">The colors of death (PoemTalk #193)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Ariana Reines, “To the Reader”</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/Reines PT Pattie McCarthy Eric Shoemaker Michelle Taransky.jpg" alt="" title="From left: Pattie McCarthy, Eric Shoemaker, Michelle Taransky" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left: Pattie McCarthy, Eric Shoemaker, Michelle Taransky</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p>Al Filreis brought together Michelle Taransky, Pattie McCarthy, and Robert Eric Shoemaker, who had traveled from Chicago to join us — to talk about a poem by Ariana Reines, “To the Reader.” The poem was included in Reines’s <em>A Sand Book</em> (Tin House, 2019). Eric and Al co-curated the selection, in part because of Eric's work with magical poetics. Our recording of Reines performing this poem dates from 2020 and was hosted by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The audio we hear toward the beginning of the episode is extracted from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r13mN0xGHzk">a video that is available on YouTube</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/383292987">Vimeo</a>, produced by Christian Lund, with sound editing by Tomás Guiñazú. Click <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/Reines-Ariana_To-the-Reader.pdf">HERE</a> to read a text of the poem (scanned from <em>A Sand Book</em>).</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">February 15, 2024</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-17346" class="node node-type-commentary-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/commentary/bernstein-poemtalk">Bernstein on PoemTalk</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <h3 class="subtitle"></h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-commentaries view-id-commentaries view-display-id-node_content_1 view-dom-id-1"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-title-1"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/commentary/charles-bernstein">Charles Bernstein</a></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/its-new-reality-man-poemtalk-14">Allen Ginsberg Sings Blake</a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/my-rotting-place-poemtalk-162"><br />Tuli Kupferberg</a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/its-new-reality-man-poemtalk-14"><br /></a><a href="http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2009/11/lindsay.html">Vachel Lindsay<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/writing-through-ezra-poemtalk-46">Jackson Mac Low<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/explode-small-change-poemtalk-104">Akilah Oliver</a>: <a href="https://jacket2.org/interviews/explode-small-change-poemtalk-104">transcription<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/back-geography-poemtalk-34">Charles Olson<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/paw-mouthings-poemtalk-177">Maggie O'Sullivan<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/troubled-sleep-poemtalk-12">Ezra Pound<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/far-toward-far-end-poemtalk-169">George Quasha<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/rise-and-live-poemtalk-111">Naomi Replansky<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/untranslatable-poemtalk-179">Armand Schwerner<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/its-new-reality-man-poemtalk-14">Wallace Stevens<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/beside-mind-poemtalk-143">Hannah Weiner<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/podcasts/poem-remembering-me-poemtalk-30">William Carlos Williams<br /></a><a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/poemtalk-22">Louis Zukofsky</a> (with transcription)</p> </div>  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node_read_more first last"><a href="/commentary/bernstein-poemtalk" title="Read the rest of Bernstein on PoemTalk.">Read more</a></li> </ul></div>  <div id="node-17218" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/composition-life-life-poemtalk-175">Composition of life, as life (PoemTalk #175)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Joan Retallack, 'The Poethical Wager'</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/IMG_3852_2.jpg" alt="" title="From left: erica kaufman, Joan Retallack, Laynie Browne" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left: erica kaufman, Joan Retallack, Laynie Browne</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-175_On-Joan-Retallacks-Poethical-Wager.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p> <p>PoemTalk went on the road, along with PoemTalk’s editor Zach Carduner, our tech guru pal Chris Martin (Zach on video, Chris on audio), and our colleague Laynie Browne. We wandered up some PA/NJ/NY highways into the mid-Hudson Valley, landing at Annandale-on-Hudson, the home of Bard College, where we decamped with all our gear and were joined by Joan Retallack, erica kaufman, and Laynie.</p> <div class="meta"><span class="submitted">August 26, 2022</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-16885" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/damned-fruitflies-poemtalk-156">Damned fruitflies (PoemTalk #156)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Steve Dalachinsky, 'with shelter gone'</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/Steve Dalachinsky.jpg" alt="" title="Photo credit: Robert Yarra" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>Photo credit: Robert Yarra</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-156_On-Steve-Dalachinskys-With-Shelter-Gone.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p> <p>Al Filreis, with help from Zach Carduner in our virtual Kelly Writers House control room, convened Bonny Finberg, Julien Poirier, and Jake Marmer to talk about a poem by Steve Dalachinsky. The poem is titled “with shelter gone,” and our recording of Dalachinsky performing it is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e4C92bqJWA&feature=youtu.be&t=24">clipped from a video</a> documenting a reading that took place at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City in 2008. The reading was hosted by Jake Marmer.</p> <div class="meta"><span class="submitted">January 21, 2021</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-16524" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/worker-tanka-poemtalk-139">Worker's tanka (PoemTalk #139)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Six tankas by Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett, and Davidson Garrett of the Worker Writers School</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/Nowak tanka PT Feb 2019 copy.JPG" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-139_On-three-tankas-Worker-Writers-School.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p><p>This episode of PoemTalk was cocurated by Mark Nowak and Al Filreis. In it we discuss with Meg Pendoley and Husnaa Hashim six short poems following the tanka form. The tankas were composed by three poets, two tankas each by Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett, and Davidson Garrett. The poets are members of the Worker Writers School, which meets regularly in New York City. The recordings we hear in the episode were made by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Zardon Richardson at a meeting of the workshop on February 2, 2019. With our program notes, we make available the films of these poets performing their poems.</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">August 26, 2019</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-15957" class="node node-type-commentary-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/commentary/wai-chee-dimock-education-populism">Wai Chee Dimock, 'Education Populism'</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <h3 class="subtitle"></h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-commentaries view-id-commentaries view-display-id-node_content_1 view-dom-id-2"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-title-1"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/commentary/al-filreis">Al Filreis</a></span> </div> </div> </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/PMLA-editorial-page.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p>Wai Chee Dimock, editor of PMLA, published her editor’s comment during fall 2017 on the “education populism” she discerned in several affiliated projects hosted at the Kelly Writers House — among them, PennSound, PoemTalk, ModPo, and the programs offered in the old house at 3805 Locust Walk itself. A PDF copy of the article is available <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/Dimock_Education-Populism.pdf">HERE</a>.</p> </div>  </div>  <div id="node-11914" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/poemtalk-retrospective-poemtalk-100">A PoemTalk retrospective (PoemTalk #100)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">PoemTalkers each respond to two episodes</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/PT100th-group-not-Al-Feb2016 2.jpg" alt="" title="From left to right: William J. Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, and Charles Bernstein." class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left to right: William J. Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, and Charles Bernstein.</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-100_Celebration-and-Retrospective.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p> <p>To celebrate the one hundredth episode of PoemTalk — the series began in 2007 and is ongoing — producer and host Al Filreis convened seven poet-critics who had participated in previous episodes: Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, William J. Harris, erica kaufman, Tracie Morris, Steve McLaughlin, and Charles Bernstein. These seven were asked to listen again to the series and choose two episodes that in particular stimulated new thinking or the desire to revise, restate, reaffirm, assess, and/or commend.</p> <div class="meta"><span class="submitted">May 5, 2016</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-8641" class="node node-type-article node-promoted node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/article/additional-notes-will-alexanders-compound-hibernation">Additional notes on Will Alexander's 'Compound Hibernation'</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="author-and-type-wrapper"><div class="author-and-type"><a href="/content/tracie-morris">Tracie Morris</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/will-alexander-keep.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p>Erica Hunt sets this reading up by calling Alexander a metaphysician. One of her students said “like Jimi Hendrix.” Hunt says yes and also Aimé Césaire, Jayne Cortez. How are they all metaphysicians? What permutation of Black Magic is this political postmodern <em>grimoire</em>? What is it evoking?</p> <p>Just before reading my bullet points and notes on Will Alexander’s poem, I read a story, saw a video that speculated on how Mars looked before it lost its atmosphere. There are speculations about how this happened, how it lost its magnetic poles, but it went from earthlike with seas and air and clouds to a rusty tomb, where our small land robots search for evidence of microfossils from billions of years ago. I thought about this kind of sifting from a whole to atomic, from the big bang’s busting to dust.</p> </div><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">April 8, 2014</span></div> <ul class="links inline"><li class="node_read_more first last"><a href="/article/additional-notes-will-alexanders-compound-hibernation" title="Read the rest of Additional notes on Will Alexander's 'Compound Hibernation'.">Read more</a></li> </ul></div>  <div id="node-7041" class="node node-type-commentary-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/commentary/cole-swensen-responds">Cole Swensen responds</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <h3 class="subtitle"></h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-commentaries view-id-commentaries view-display-id-node_content_1 view-dom-id-3"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-title-1"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/content/poem-talk1">PoemTalk</a></span> </div> </div> </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/swensen-reply.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><em>What follows is a response to <a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/where-real-exceeds-ideal-poemtalk-52">PoemTalk #52</a> written by Cole Swensen, whose poem “If a Garden of Numbers” is discussed by Al Filreis, Ann Seaton, Gregory Djanikian and Michelle Taransky in that show.</em></p> <p>I wanted to respond to the reading given to one of my poems in <a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/where-real-exceeds-ideal-poemtalk-52">a recent number</a> of PoemTalk. I was thrilled to hear that it was on the program because it’s such a wonderful series, but then I was disappointed to hear the actual discussion. It seemed dominated by Ann Seaton’s very particular agenda, which is an extremely important one, but not the only lens through which to look at 17th-century French gardens.</p> <p>As Seaton herself stated, she was interested in “everything that wasn’t in the poem,” but because of that, what is in the poem never got addressed. Even its basic subject — the construction of the concept of nature by the sciences, which characterizes the modern world — wasn't discussed, nor was the dominant image in the poem, the golden section. And by extension, geometry as a whole, and with it, perspective, subject positioning, and the constitution of collective subjectivity were all left out. Discussing these, which are the agenda of the poem, might have opened the talk up to the critique attempted by many parts of the book.</p> </div>  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node_read_more first last"><a href="/commentary/cole-swensen-responds" title="Read the rest of Cole Swensen responds.">Read more</a></li> </ul></div>  <div class="item-list"><ul class="pager"><li class="pager-current first">1</li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="/category/al-filreis-tags/poemtalk?page=1" title="Go to page 2" class="active">2</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="/category/al-filreis-tags/poemtalk?page=2" title="Go to page 3" class="active">3</a></li> <li class="pager-next"><a href="/category/al-filreis-tags/poemtalk?page=1" title="Go to next page" class="active">next ›</a></li> <li class="pager-last last"><a href="/category/al-filreis-tags/poemtalk?page=2" title="Go to last page" class="active">last »</a></li> </ul></div> </div> <div class="feed-icons"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3119/0/feed" class="feed-icon"><img src="/misc/feed.png" alt="Syndicate content" title="RSS - PoemTalk" 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-6 view-latest-posts view-id-latest_posts view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-6"> <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>