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The section discussed by the group is titled “Chasing Dirt” and consists of two epigraphs, a prose-poem paragraph, a mixed media artwork titled <em>Silent Talks</em> by Tiffanie Delune, and a sequence of three-line poems across four pages of four poems each. Since PennSound’s Harryette Mullen author page did not yet include a recording of Harryette performing poems from Open Leaves, we asked her to read “Chasing Dirt” at the start of the recorded session. The pages from <em>Open Leaves</em> are available <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/Mullen-Harryette_Open-Leaves_pp7-12.pdf"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.</p> <div class="meta"><span class="submitted">November 20, 2024</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-17398" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/fracas-hinterlands-poemtalk-191">Fracas in the hinterlands (PoemTalk #191)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Kenward Elmslie, “Core Bonus” & “One Night Stand”</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/PoemTalk Elmslie Henry Simone Wayne.jpg" alt="" title="From left: Henry Steinberg, Simone White & Wayne Koestenbaum" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left: Henry Steinberg, Simone White & Wayne Koestenbaum</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p>Wayne Koestenbaum, Simone White, and Henry Steinberg joined Al Filreis to talk about a poem and a song lyric by Kenward Elmslie. The poem is “Core Bonus” and the song is “One Night Stand.” As of the recording we had not located published/in-print version of “Core Bonus” but Elsmlie's <a href="https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Elmslie.php">PennSound page</a> includes a record of it. “One Night Stand” was included in <em>Routine Disruptions: Selected Poems and Lyrics</em> (Coffee House Press, 1998). “Core Bonus” was performed during a Segue eries reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York on April 7, 2007. “One Night Stand” was sung by Elmslie at the Kelly Writers House on November 12, 2003, for an event titled “Snippets: A Gathering of Songs, Visual Collaborations, and Poems.”</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">December 20, 2023</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-17033" class="node node-type-commentary-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/commentary/erica-hunt-jump-clock">Erica Hunt: Jump the Clock</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> <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/Screen Shot 2021-09-03 at 10.08.25 AM.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church, in New York, celebrated Erica Hunt’s new selected poems, <em>Jump the Clock</em>, on May 19, 2021 — the first live event at the Project since the onset of the pandemic. </p> </div>  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node_read_more first last"><a href="/commentary/erica-hunt-jump-clock" title="Read the rest of Erica Hunt: Jump the Clock.">Read more</a></li> </ul></div>  <div id="node-16852" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/promise-go-poemtalk-154">Promise to go on (PoemTalk #154)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Elizabeth Willis, 'The Similitude of This Great Flower'</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/Elizabeth Willis.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-154_On-Elizabeth-Willis-The-Similitude-of-This-Great-Flower.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p> <p><span>For this 154th episode of the PoemTalk series, Al Filreis remotely convened Simone White, Kate Colby, and Angela Carr </span>to talk about a prose poem by Elizabeth Willis, “The Similitude of This Great Flower.” The <a href="http://cordite.org.au/poetry/whitehomes/the-similitude-of-this-great-flower/">poem</a> was first <a href="http://cordite.org.au/poetry/whitehomes/the-similitude-of-this-great-flower/">published</a> in the <em>Cordite Poetry Review</em> in January of 2008. Our <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Willis/Close-Listening/Reading/Willis-Elizabeth_04_The-Similitude-of-This-Great-Flower_Close-Listening_reading_3-17-08.mp3">recording of the poem</a> comes from <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Willis.php">a Close Listening session</a> hosted by Charles Bernstein on March 17, 2008.</p> <div class="meta"><span class="submitted">November 25, 2020</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-16771" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/ominous-pre-tingling-poemtalk-150">Ominous pre-tingling (PoemTalk #150)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Terrance Hayes, 'MJ Fan Letter' and 'RSVP'</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/Terrance Hayes.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-150_On-two-poems-by-Terrance-Hayes.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p> <p>Simone White, Dixon Li, and Jo Park joined Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House to discuss two poems by Terrance Hayes from his book <em>Wind in a Box</em> (2006). The poems are “<a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/PoemTalk/Hayes-Terrance_MJ-Fan-Letter_from-Wind-in-a-Box.jpg">MJ Fan Letter</a>” and “<a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/PoemTalk/Hayes-Terrance_RSVP.jpg">RSVP</a>,” and the texts are connected. The first begins with an address to Michael Jackson (“Dear K.O.P,” or King of Pop) and the second begins “Dear Michael,” although the opening of that versified fan letter is crossed out — single-line excising that makes it easy nonetheless to see and read what is meant to be excluded or second-guessed. And when the cross-outs finish in that passage of the second poem, the writing starts again with “Dear K.O.P.” We hear layerings of speaker, addressed figure, voices, subjective imaginings, and fantastic substitutions.</p> <div class="meta"><span class="submitted">July 24, 2020</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-16560" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/republic-space-poemtalk-140">The republic of space (PoemTalk #140)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Barbara Guest, 'The Blue Stairs'</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/Guest PT Simone Mei-mei Kristin.JPG" alt="" title="From left: Simone White, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Kirstin Prevallet" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left: Simone White, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Kirstin Prevallet</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-140_On-Guest-The-Blue-Stairs.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p><p>Kristin Prevallet, Simone White, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge joined Al Filreis to talk about Barbara Guest’s poem “<a href="https://poets.org/poem/blue-stairs">The Blue Stairs</a>,” title <a href="https://poets.org/poem/blue-stairs">poem</a> of the book published in 1968. It can be found on pages 61–63 of the <em>Collected Poems</em>, edited by Hadley Guest and published by Wesleyan in 2008, fifty years later. PennSound’s <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Guest.php">Barbara Guest page</a> is, we think, a thing of beauty, featuring more than a dozen readings across decades, each reading-length recording organized into poem-by-poem segments. The Guest author page includes three different performances of “The Blue Stairs,” the <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Guest/LOC/Guest-Barbara_Recording-Laboratory_6-2-1969_01.mp3">first</a> given at the Library of Congress in June of 1969; the <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Guest/Location-of-Things/Guest-Barbara_05_Blue-Stairs_NY_1984.mp3">second</a> a studio recording made in 1984; the <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Guest/LOC/Guest-Barbara_Mumford-Room_12-5-1996_25.mp3">third</a> in 1996. </p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">September 26, 2019</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-15749" class="node node-type-commentary-post node-promoted node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/commentary/simone-white%E2%80%99s-being-dispersed-violence-numerous-wake">On Simone White’s 'Of Being Dispersed': Violence / The Numerous / The Wake</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/davy-knittle">Davy Knittle</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/white_cover_FINAL.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14px;">One interlocutor of Simone White’s 2016 collection of poems, </span><em style="font-size: 14px;">Of Being Dispersed</em><span style="font-size: 14px;">, is the 1968 collection by Objectivist poet George Oppen, </span><em style="font-size: 14px;">Of Being Numerous</em><span style="font-size: 14px;">. Oppen’s titular long poem, which is the bulk of the collection, is concerned with the development of language to address the condition of living in the multitude. Section three of the poem begins:</span></p> </div>  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node_read_more first last"><a href="/commentary/simone-white%E2%80%99s-being-dispersed-violence-numerous-wake" title="Read the rest of On Simone White’s 'Of Being Dispersed': Violence / The Numerous / The Wake.">Read more</a></li> </ul></div>  <div id="node-15601" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/dead-me-poemtalk-114">Dead to me (PoemTalk #114)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Claudia Rankine, 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely'</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/Claudia Rankine_1.png" 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-114_Rankine-Dont-Let-Me-Be-Lonely.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p><p>Simone White, Kyoo Lee, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague joined Al Filreis to discuss a passage from Claudia Rankine’s <em>Don’t Let Me Be Lonely</em>: <em>An American Lyric</em>. The discussion follows Rankine's extrordinarily synthesis of various huge issues: illness and death, memory loss and the misery of forgetting, the ubiquitous frame-setting of television, incarceration, police violence, useful and useless language, antidepressants, and the poem as a social assertion of “here.”</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">July 15, 2017</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-14114" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/swear-it-closed-poemtalk-103">Swear it closed (PoemTalk #103)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Simone White, 'Of Being Dispersed'</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/Myles-Kaufman-Zolf-PTSimoneWhite-Mar2016.jpg" alt="" title="From left to right: Eileen Myles, Erica Kaufman, and Rachel Zolf." class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>From left to right: Eileen Myles, Erica Kaufman, and Rachel Zolf.</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-103_Simone-White.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW</a></p><p>Rachel Zolf, Eileen Myles, and erica kaufman joined Al Filreis to talk about four short poems from what was then an unpublished typescript of a new book by Simone White. The book is <em>Of Being Dispersed</em>, now available from <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780996002547/of-being-dispersed.aspx">Futurepoem</a>. White <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/White.php">performed these and other poems</a> from the collection at a Segue Series reading at Zinc Bar in New York on January 11, 2014. The work responds in part to George Oppen’s <em>Of Being Numerous</em>. Numerousness, pluralism, plenitude of subjects, objects, and sources, are certainly inclusive influences — but are also extended and even defied here by the agony and ferocity of dispersal, the sexual and racial sense of being pushed out.</p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">August 9, 2016</span></div> </div> </div>  <div id="node-12192" class="node node-type-podcast-post node-teaser clearfix"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/podcasts/what-geometry-poemtalk-101">With what geometry (PoemTalk #101)</a></h2> <div class="content">  <h3 class="subtitle">Edward Dorn, 'The Sundering U.P. Tracks'</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/White-LeFraga-Whitman-DORN-PoemTalk-Feb2016.jpg" alt="" title="Left to right: Simone White, Sophia Le Fraga, and Andrew Whiteman." class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column imagecache-default imagecache-wide_main_column_default" /><figcaption>Left to right: Simone White, Sophia Le Fraga, and Andrew Whiteman.</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts/PoemTalk/PoemTalk-101_Ed-Dorn_Sundering-UP-Tracks.mp3">LISTEN TO THE SHOW </a></p><p><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/simone-white">Simone White</a>, <a href="http://www.sophialefraga.com/">Sophia Le Fraga</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Whiteman">Andrew Whiteman</a> joined Al Filreis to talk about Ed Dorn’s “The Sundering U.P. Tracks.” A political reading of the poem emerges through the discussion, as they group situates it as a late-1960s reflection on a slightly earlier moment of realization and radicalization: the turning-point summer of 1965, when Dorn’s collaborator, <a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/collections/reference-library/stills/1077">photographer Leroy McLucas</a>, arrived in Pocatello only to discover that he was to be housed on the other side of the tracks. The racial trope and idiom of the US East reverts to its literal origins in the making of the US West. And there it is: the key fault line, a built-environment actuality <em>and</em> metaphor. Dorn here is ready rhetorically and politically for a counter-expansion that rereads American generations of Manifest Destiny, monopoly, segregation, and local oligarchy on one hand, and, on the other, “summer firebombs / of Chicago.”<em><br></em></p><div class="meta"><span class="submitted">June 13, 2016</span></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="feed-icons"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9089/0/feed" class="feed-icon"><img src="/misc/feed.png" alt="Syndicate content" title="RSS - Simone White" 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-5 view-latest-posts view-id-latest_posts view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-5"> <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>