…there in your eventual arrondissement where you have more credible holography, more inspiring actual events, your ghazals composed of crow racket, retrorockets, your glaciers breaking, your discotheques wailing, probably, probably,…
…when it comes to poetry, I’d kind of say that, for me, at least everything can be traced back to that first moment of inspiration, kind of that first moment…
…yourself, how others see you and about invisibility visibility, silence, knowledge, those kinds of things. So, yeah, I mean, I think, I think as a sort of a BIPOC writer…
…these seasons, hearing poems, talking about writing, books, life. It’s been one of the favorite things we do at the Press. So friends for season four, a format change.
…red balloon, a phalanx of protestors, a quarrel, a militia, off camera, geared up, prepared to muster the musk of daily incivility, a roar of past coincidences, blood smell, men’s…
…dream, of Line / Break Season 1’s former host, Laura Buccieri, of wanting to see more poets represented on screen, talking shop, answering questions, and taking us behind the scenes…
…going to the library, and I used to struggle with reading, which is like a parent in my “ABC for Refugees” poem. So, no, I wasn’t really exposed to poetry,…
…pride, be like, “oh, Trey is smart. Oh, he’s sitting in that corner, he’s writing.” Now, I might’ve been writing awful things about them, but I was writing.
…hats. So, but yeah, no, I mean, I guess speaking to that, I’m curious, how do you, being a poet, being, you’re also a librarian, you’re still correct? A librarian…
…being here and, you know, I would love if possible to have you introduce yourself, maybe name, pronouns, where you live, most recent book you published, anything else you want…
…not let me anyway. Kayleb (18:44): Very campy, the motorcycle. Laura (18:45): That’s no, exactly right, I know.
…familiarity. How they write this landscape, this body of tenderness and rust, violence, longing, and love. Kayleb has such a gift for writing beauty that, while complicated, remains uncompromised.
…long time with these, as you say, this incredible influx. Misinformation, disinformation, also earnestly felt, earnestly articulated best version of the truth information, but we watch it change, change, change….
…back, a torn gut, a hole in your abdomen, an irritated stomach, a swollen gland, a growth, a fever, a cough, a hiccup, a sneeze, a bursting blood vessel in…
…and well-being of our colleagues, friends, and family—including the Black writers, editors, teachers, students, librarians, and booksellers among us—depends on a collective commitment to dismantling racist practices, including those historically…
…name, last name, nickname, current and former address, phone numbers, email addresses, and other similar data. Information collected from other sources In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases,…
The latest episode of Line / Break features Whiting Award-winner Tyree Daye. Tyree joins our host, Director of Publicity Laura Buccieri, for a conversation about eavesdropping, coffee habits, and the…
…been dipping into it all summer. Despite the collection’s diasporic scope, these poems are intimate in their charting of daily life, whether that life be in Dublin, Ireland or Palampur,…
…to yours: Monica Sok reads “The Weaver” from A Nail the Evening Hangs On: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sok-The-Weaver.
…you. Every touch electric, every taste you, every smell, even burning sugar, every cry and laugh. Toothpicked samples at the farmer’s market, every melon, plum, I come undone, undone.