Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
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Dr. Han VanderHart
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“There are also those times when you send someone a poem you're rather pleased with, and fail to receive one in reply. Of course there's no more to be done about it...Even so, you do lose respect for someone who doesn't produce any response to your tasteful seasonal references.”
Sei Shōnagon
“I’m astonished at how empty I am—how much I need to fill back up.”
Little post from the longleaf pine woods and Weymouth Center…
When you are too good for this world…
Some say an army of horsemen, others Say foot soldiers, still others say a fleet
Is the finest thing on the dark earth
I say it is what you love*
*writing lists of “dispiriting things”
Sad I’m not home because my very-necessary-hat will be delivered this week.
“Me too,” said a field mouse. “I have not seen anything funny in a long time.”
Nothing like a woman who knows
to kiss the right thing at the right time,
then kisses the things she’s missed.
How had I ever settled for less?
I was thinking this is intelligence,
this is the wisest tongue
since the Oracle got into a Greek’s ear,
speaking sense.
Stephen Dunn
poets.org/poem/kiss
So much media is "rich people are the only people worthy of attention" & so many viewers' takeaways seem to be "I too want to be worthy of attention."
