A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, Donika has also received a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. While there’s no resolution, the larger empty space offers a holding place for the poet.ĭonika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations and Bestiary, the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The high emptiness of the church seems to give a resting place for the emptiness she’s feeling. In the corner there are some girls talking, there are stained glass windows, and the poet is at once at home in herself and far from the woman she loves. Why do empty places sometimes lend themselves to reflection or contemplation? In this poem, a poet - describing herself as a nonbeliever - goes into a chapel to sit.
Turner Chair in English, Ríos has taught at Arizona State University since 1982.įind the transcript for this show at.
Piper Chair in Creative Writing, and the Katharine C. University Professor of Letters, Regents’ Professor, Virginia G. Ríos is also the host of the PBS programs Art in the 48 and Books & Co. Published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other journals, he has also written three short story collections and a memoir, Capirotada, about growing up on the Mexican border.
His own heart, too, echoes the universe’s noise.Īlberto Ríos is Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, as well as the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently, Not Go Away Is My Name. Thinking about the enormity of all this, he thinks of the smallness of the hearts of birds, wasps, moths, bats, and dragonflies - all flying things around him, suspended in space, like the earth is suspended in space. He is so small the universe is so loud and so silent. Standing at the edge of a desert, surveying the stars on a December morning, the speaker in this poem observes the everything of everything.
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