Having launched her three children, and recently retired from teaching, she is returning to writing more regularly. In the intervening years since, translations and poems have made their slow way into journals including Poetry, Sun Dog, Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Poetry Review, Water-Stone Review and The New Millennium Awards (honorable mention), and The Yale Younger Poets’Anthology. Eastern Washington University published her translation of Gabriela Mistral’s Poemas de las Madres in 1996. Christiane Jacox’s first book of poetry, Bears Dancing in the Northern Air, received the Yale Younger Poets’ Prize in 1990. Lifting a frond of grass, tipping the question in joy’s favor. Shimmer the water and their wet, grey down, each gentle beak Lives and bends to what hasn’t yet been answered.įor once I want to wake up praising something other Only to look out without counting to see what or who Whatever was waiting under the darkening water while I slept,Īnd now it is light and it is day and for once I want Whether one has gone missing, gone down into the lakeīy way of the snapping turtle, the hook, or the broken line. Like clockwork, like a child stuttering a charm,Īn unbeliever’s decisive, quick prayer-those questions, Just beyond my window, and each morning I count. Their grey necks dip into questions the body asksĪs they bath each morning on the small beach Website: For Once: Six Cygnets by Christiane Jacoxįall has arrived and they are still so young. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). Her work is forthcoming in Pleaides, The Carolina Quarterly, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Her dissertation concentrated on a comparative literature study exploring postcolonial ecocriticism in the fiction and non-fiction of Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from The University of Plymouth. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2019-20) at The University of Stirling. She is the recipient of the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She is a recipient of the 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship at Stockton University. Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. I cannot tell you about a country without telling you about revision. History is a wall charcoaled with erasure, stuck with coins. Look, the world is burning.Įven rivers with alluvial soil deposits run barren because of wildfires. You create knots- because you know more about coins, Now you want throats filled with clanking sounds of coins. When you migrated, you saw every pair of eyes as slits for coins. Hands that bless aren’t always hands that feed. I’m always forgetting cities because I had to evacuate many.Įvery lost city is a river in the shape of someone I love. Immigrants are the patron saints of fleeing. It is true that this can be any city, any country. Tell me what you know about escape, and I’ll tell you how I ran.īecause they only like a face that holds terror. Tell me what you know of violence, and I’ll tell you how colonists lie. I tried, while walking alone on a street of the country in question. Have you ever looked at what color is the moon? We speak of those on behalf of whom you want to speak. We speak of people you are uncomfortable speaking about. When we speak of birth, we speak of mothers. How the oceans are being drastically altered by human activity.Įverything is about water, because everything is about birth. Of those, the books you choose not to read is also political.Īn excerpt from a book in your house explains Listen- What books you keep you in your house is political. I bet you Google net worth to compare how you rank. TO THE LANDLORD WHO CASUALLY MENTIONED RACISM DOES NOT HAPPEN IN A POPULAR CITY OF A COLONIZER COUNTRY by Sneha Subramanian Kanta The pieces are diverse, arresting, and substantial, each in their own voice and method. For Part 1, we’re sharing work by Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Christiane Jacox, and Kelly Weber. First, a sincere thank you to all the finalists for partnering with us.
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