Jennifer Chang
What does it even mean to write a poem?It means todayI’m correcting my mistakes. It means I don’t want to be lonely. — Jennifer Chang, from “Again a Solstice,” Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017)
What does it even mean to write a poem?It means todayI’m correcting my mistakes. It means I don’t want to be lonely. — Jennifer Chang, from “Again a Solstice,” Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017)
To feel you in my veins like God in the rivers — Pablo Neruda, first line to “Love,” Book of Twilight, trans. William O’Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)
For it is love that I am seeking for,But of a beautiful, unheard-of kindThat is not in the world. — W.B. Yeats, from The Shadowy Waters: A Dramatic Poem (BBC, 1959)