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sageandscorpiongrass · 7 months

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hii could you possibly do a web weaving about long distance relationships?? im struggling so much right now :<

oh long distance lovers, we're really in it now.

Distance makes the heart grow weary

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ademella · 7 months

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currently reading

#books #poems #poetry #reading #book cover #187 reasons mexicanos can't cross the border #chicano #juan felipe herrera

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poetrybypoc · 2 years

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And suddenly, with a slight tremor of eyes, vertebrae and fingers, I destroy everything that exists.

- from Grafik // Juan Felipe Herrera

#poem #poetry #verse #writing #quote #free verse #poc poet #destruction #chicano #mexican american #juan felipe herrera

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manwalksintobar · 8 days

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the experiment // Juan Felipe Herrera

they went south

they came north

they went south

they came north

this was their wilderness it went on decade after decade

their wilderness their desert their omnipresent exodus

they were packed separated

filtered into a bus

ordered to return after due processing yes

yet joy and happiness

continued

#poetry #Juan Felipe Herrera #American poetry #Boston Review #migration #migrants #south #north #immigrant songs #loving the world anyway #joy

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latinxmodernpoetry · 5 months

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What Is An Occasional Poem?

Occasional, topical, and news poems are used to address something particular to the time they are written in, and in particular are often about something in the news. At times they are even commissioned by certain entities to mark particular events and are written with the intention to be viewed long after they are written. The works of latinx poet Juan Felipe Herrera exemplify the need for topical poetics in times of duress, and in particular afterwards. Occasional and topical poems often are made to keep the excitement of a movement going, especially after the initial excitement of protests wants to die down. His works, in particular 187 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border are great examples of what we typically think of when we think of an occasional poem. On the importance of occasional poetry, Herrera stated in an interview with Matt Blakley for The Library of Congress that,

The occasional poem is a poem of direct emotional power: it is accessible, and it fosters a public relationship. It is the place where we all can meet—to offer our words, the news, and the heart of our lives—in a time of crises. I have dedicated my life to these endeavors. What else is there? As Poet Laureate, I can knock on the doors of our national house, visit for a moment or two and sit with families in pain and suffering. Seven months into the year, I have made many “poetry visits” such as these—perhaps too many (Herrera, emphasis added).

I think key points about what make an occasional poem are described in this statement, in particular that occasional poetry is emotionally charged, accessible to everyone, and that it brings people together through a shared emotional feeling. Given this criteria, there are some poems that cross and blur the lines of what is and isn't an occasional poem. Sometimes I read a poem and think to myself that it could only ever be understood in the time period that we are reading it, or in the future with the knowledge of the past. Some poems simply cannot be understood before certain societal changes and events. The aforementioned poem, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border, is such a poem, and I wonder if a poem that elicits this feeling could be counted as an occasional poem simply because you can only read it within or after the occasion it is written in. An example that I think of is a poem by Edward C. Corral from his work Guillotine, particularly from the section "Testaments Scratched Into A Water Station Barrel". The untitled poem on page 15 of the book seems like a transcription of graffiti or etchings that the author observed, as given by the title of the section. There are some lines in the poem that could only be understood in the time it was written and the time after, some of the references would not make sense in a pre 2016, pre Trump world. Lines like “BUILD THE WALL STOP DRUGS”, “I 🖤brown A$$”, “hey illegals ICE”, and “make Arizona great again” are examples of the poems specificity to the time it was written. Although maybe not labeled as an occasional poem outright, it has elements of an occasional poem, and maybe upon absolute technicality it is a topical poem. Moving forward however, within this blog, I want to think of poems like this, of marking historical moments through their very existence. Like Herrera said, occasional poems are meant to be poems of direct emotional power, accessible, and connect people in a shared feeling during a time of crisis. I think a lot of poems mark massive cultural shifts and I want to examine ways they can, and how poetry flows through us as a means to a reaction to the world at large.

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Blakley, Matt, and Juan Felipe Herrera. “‘To Find Our Larger Self’: An Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera.” Library Of Congress Blogs, Library of Congress, 2016, https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2016/07/to-find-our-larger-self-an-interview-with-juan-felipe-herrera/. Accessed 2023.

#occasional poetry #juan felipe herrera #edwardo c corral #poetry #art #latinx poetry #short essay #political poetry

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hopernicus · 7 months

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...si pt.

…si pt. ca am dat de poemul asta in volumul cu traduceri din poezia lumii. Un poem de Juan Felipe Herrera. Eu cred ca atinge bine esenta lucrurilor privind poezia, asta pt cei care inca mai cauta negasind si nu numai 😉 ” Lasa-ma sa-ti spun ce aduce un poem”

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thenerdsofcolor · 1 year

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After a record breaking cold spell across usually-sunny California, the customary 80-degree weather had begun to pick up again in mid April; as the sun set over South Broadway’s historic Ace Hotel Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, the golden views and massive crowds were a fitting way to welcome in students, poets, writers and songwriters from far and wide to the annual 2023 Classic Slam…

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#California #Diane Luby Lane #Get Lit #Grace Weber #High School #Juan Felipe Herrera #Malcolm-Jamal Warner #Poet Laureate #poetry #Salome Agbaroji #Slam Poetry

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qwirkygear · 5 months

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ifreakingloveroyals · 2 years

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24 July 2015 | King Felipe VI of Spain receives Castilla y Leon regional government President Juan Vicente Herrera at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, Spain. (c) Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images

#King Felipe VI #Juan Vicente Herrera #Spain #2015 #Carlos Alvarez #Getty Images

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llovelymoonn · 2 months

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favourite poems of february

avery r. young peestain

claudine toutoungi future perfect

david rivard bewitched playground: "not guilty"

brian kim stefans the future is one of place

lisa gill post-traumatic rainstorm

clare pollard pinocchios

rebecca lindenberg love, an index: "catalogue of ephemera"

etel adnan the arab apocalypse: "xxxvi"

stanley moss god breaketh not all men's hearts alike: "a blind fisherman"

robert browning an epistle containing the strange medical experience of karshish, the arab physician

tom sleigh beirut tank

khaled mattawa ismailia eclipse: "date palm trinity"

mark levine unemployment (3)

lucia cherciu butter, olive oil, flour

reginald shepherd fata morgana: "you, therefore"

john updike claremont hotel, southwest harbour, maine

bruce smith the other lover: "february sky"

johnny cash forever words: the unknown poems: "don't make a movie about me"

eamon grennan what light there is & other poems: "jewel box"

eduardo c. corral in colorado my father scoured and stacked dishes

thomas mccarthy the beginning of colour

divya victor curb: "blood / soil"

henneh kyereh kwaku in praise

joanna fuhrman to a new era: "lavender"

rosemary catacalos sight unseen

sam willetts digging

megan fernandes winter

jaswinder bolina the plague on tv

juan felipe herrera notes on the assemblage: "almost livin' almost dyin'"

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weltenwellen · 1 year

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Juan Felipe Herrera, from "Dawn Will Usher Me"

#poetry

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brandonshimoda · 4 months

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THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

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arturcii · 10 months

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Joyce Mansour - "Je suis la nuit" / I am the night (1953; trans. Emily Moorhouse)

Frank Bidart - The War of Vaslav Nijinsky (1981)

Ladan Osman - Refusing Eurydice (2019)

Juan Felipe Herrera - Punk Half Panther (1999)

Alice C. Rollins - Parable of the Goldfinch (2020)

#web weaving

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regalfille · 6 months

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Queen Letizia of Spain attended the 2023 National Day Parade with King Felipe VI and Princess Leonor

Spanish Queen Letizia chose a blue to mark the 2023 National Day

Queen Letizia of Spain wore a Juan Vidal Soft Romantic Shirt Dress, Gold & Roses Luzia 2 and 3 Star earrings, Corterno Ring and Carolina Herrera Slingback pumps. More details on Regalfille.

#royal news #royal family news #royal family #spanish royal family #queen letizia #spain #king felipe #spanish #queen #princess leonor #princess of asturias

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newlettersradio · 1 year

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Now Streaming: We celebrate The Academy of American Poets’ Poem in Your Pocket Day with this anthology program, The Cruelest Month. Billy Collins, Charles Simic, Kay Ryan, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rita Dove, Donald Hall and more use poetry to reflect on love. Listen to the full show on our PRX page at: https://bit.ly/3AApzPS

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leohtttbriar · 1 year

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Dawn Will Usher Me

BY JUAN FELIPE HERRERA

#poetry

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