Dodge Poetry Festival 2014: Four Days in One Post
Wow! My head is spinning from the Dodge Poetry Festival this past weekend. So many incredibly brilliant poets who kept us thinking, moving, teary-eyed, inspired and falling even more deeply in love with the art of poetry.
The poet Alice Oswald who lives in Devon, England recited her poems from memory. She spoke about living in the English countryside where “there is the almost rude energy of the natural world.” She made buttercups seem erotic. Hmm. She also said that she is “taken by the moon and water because they both know how to change their form.” I have been devouring her book, Spacecraft Voyager 1.
Tracy K Smith
And then there were poets whom I have been following and reading for years. Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith is one of my favorite books of poetry ever. We were treated to new poems by Tracy too.
Conversation: Mirror, Blossom, Urn, Collage. Cathy Park Hong, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patrick Rosal, Brenda...
