As I witness their commitment to poetry amid all the pressures and demands from a world that is “too much with us,” I’m grateful to them for helping me put my own doubts aside. My undergraduate students in particular, because of my frequent contact with them, have helped me think about the value of poetry in a world that demands to be understood in dollars and cents. These poets as young students announced themselves as writers to me, and, as you can see in their essays and bios, already move in a larger world of American poetry.Īs a poet, my most intense and regular exchanges on and around poetry have been with my students. Given the focus of the piece, I thought it especially apt to select seven poets and writers who have been (well, two still are) undergraduate students at the University of Georgia, where I teach creative writing. Alexander Chee Sarah Gambito Magdalena Zurawski Alex Lemon. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M & mdash deals with the repercussions of a strange encounter with an angel, one that has left a large bruise on her forehead. It’s about the complications and beauty of that space, a space that in many ways feels central to my identity. He is also the author of the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015. Winner of Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction The Bruise is a prize-winning novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. My OS chapbook, Don’t Be Scared, is a long meditation on teaching, on what it means to stand in a college classroom in America today and think about poetry with an excited group of young adults.
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