Why I Wrote This Poem -

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Résumé :
An anthology of a different sort, this volume presents a representative sample of contemporary American poems in 2023, with a road map of their origins. Bringing a diversity of styles and sensibilities, 62 poets from across the United States--some well known, some up-and-coming--illuminate their craft. Each poet contributes one poem, accompanied by an essay discussing their creative process and how the verse came to fruition....

Biographie:
William Walsh, the author of eight books, is the director of the Reinhardt University undergraduate creative writing program and the MFA program. He has been published in such journals as Five Points, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review and Literary Matters. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia....

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kim Addonizio
deleteCigar Box Banjo
deleteCigar Box Banjo Reflection
David Baker
deleteNineteen Spikes
deleteWriting in Peril
Aliki Barnstone
deleteScripture for Coronavirus
deleteOn Writing Scripture for Coronavirus: E Pluribus Unum
Erin Belieu
deleteWith Birds
deleteNotes on With Birds
Richard Blanco
deleteLooking for The Gulf Motel
deleteMemory as Homeland
David Bottoms
deleteUnder the ?Vulture-Tree
deleteUnder the Vulture-Tree on the Wakulla River
Earl Sherman Braggs
deleteSandy Columbine Hook Parkland
deleteWhat We Come to Know, What Comes to Know
Fred Chappell
deleteThe Departures
deleteThey
Chen Chen
deleteThe School of Night & Hyphens
deleteTelling the Truth About Love
Marilyn Chin
deleteBamboo, the Dance
deletePoetry of Necessity
Ama Codjoe
deleteBurying Seeds
deleteOn Composing Burying Seeds
Stephen Corey
deleteHistory of My Present
deleteThe History of History of My Present
Chad Davidson
deletePutting In
deleteThe Tricky Business of Elegies
Denise Duhamel
deleteRecession Commandments
deleteLies I Told Myself
Camille Dungy
deleteOne Night in 1888, as the French steamboat ?Abd-el-Kader
deleteOne Night in 1888
Stephen Dunn
deleteElementary
deleteResuscitating the Elementary Poem
Cornelius Eady
deleteBaldwin
deleteWriting Baldwin
Mart?n Espada
deleteLetter to My Father
deleteNotes on Letter to My Father
Beth Ann Fennelly
deleteWhat I Think About When Someone Uses 'Pussy' as a Synonym for 'Weak'
deleteOut of the Quarrel with Others
Annie Finch
deleteA Root
deleteThe Roots of A Root
Greg Fraser
deleteThe Good News
deleteDelivering The Good News
Alice Friman
deleteUnder a Blind Eye
deleteConfession: On Under a Blind Eye
?ngel Garc?a
deleteBarely
deleteThe Man Inside the Poem
Margaret Gibson
deleteExchange
deleteOn Writing Exchange
Nikki Giovanni
deleteKnoxville, Tennessee
deleteIt's Your Decision When You Want to Share
Beth Gylys
deleteMy Father's Nightmare
deleteMy Father's Daughter: Sex, Lies, and Telling It Slant
Janice N. Harrington
deleteLayered Pigments
deleteThe Layered Pigments of Elegy and Racial History
Terrance Hayes
deleteA POEM BY YOU delete
Edward Hirsch
deleteFor the Sleepwalkers
deleteSomething Wonderful
Jane Hirshfield
deleteToday, When I Could Do Nothing
deleteOn Writing Today, When I Could Do Nothing
Christine Kitano
deleteDumb Luck
deleteWhat is the Ethnicity of the Speaker?
Yusef Komunyakaa
deleteMy Good Hand Plays God
deleteThe Hands
Ted Kooser
deleteAn Entrance
deletePoems of Gesture
Dorianne Laux
deleteFacts About the Moon
deleteLove in Spite of the Facts
Sandra Lim
deleteA Tab of Iron on the Tongue
deleteThe Lunacy of Lyric Poetry
Adrian Matejka
deleteGymnop?dies No. 2
deleteWhat Really Happened
Airea D. Matthews
deleteIf my late grandmother were Gertrude Stein
deleteIf Ain't
Campbell McGrath
deleteThe Ladder
deleteIn the Castle of the Stranger
Dunya Mikhail
deleteThe Stranger in Her Feminine Sign
deleteFemale Slave Market
Robert Morgan
deleteSigodlin
deleteThe World Made Plumb
David Mura
deleteSouth Carolina Sea Island
deleteWalking with Ghosts
Marilyn Nelson
deleteThe Tulsa Convulsion
deleteFamily Trip to Oklahoma, 2018
Laura Newbern
deleteNovella
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