Judy Leserman
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Judy Leserman
@judyleserman.bsky.social
POET | TRANSLATOR | SLP
When Spring Could Be Anyone (2024) Aquila Review
Co-Director of Literary Translation Events at The Cheuse Center
Former Assistant Editor for Poetry Daily
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Today’s Featured Poet:

Alafia Nicole Sessions lives in Atlanta. She is a nominee for Best New Poets and the winner of the Furious Flower Prize, selected by Evie Shockley.
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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Today’s Feature:

In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Ecopoetry Now, G.C. Waldrep writes on his poem “A Meadowlark in Arrow Rock, Missouri.”

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G.C. Waldrep on "A Meadowlark in Arrow Rock, Missouri”
For me as a poet there’s a joy in sheer description, as there is also an excitement in the act of address. To describe, meaning to transpose experience (sensual or otherwise) into the register of lang...
poems.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Doing CPR on Some Dude Who Looks Just Like My Father” by Ibe Liebenberg, from the Fall 2024 Issue of Threepenny Review.

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"Doing CPR on Some Dude Who Looks Just Like My Father" by Ibe Liebenberg
from The Threepenny Review
poems.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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The secret ambition of all lyric poetry is to stop time.

—Charles Simic
November 17, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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This is like going to a new school in the middle of the year
November 13, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Eurydice” by Jenny George, from After Image, published by Copper Canyon.

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"Eurydice" by Jenny George
from "After Image" published by Copper Canyon
poems.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:02 PM