PopPoetry Postscript: May 27, 2022

I trawl the deep weird sea of the internet and return to the surface with links to interesting articles on language, creativity, poetry, pop culture, and more to welcome you into your weekend.

The world is a tough place to live in sometimes, friends. And these days, America feels like a particularly tough corner of that world to occupy. I’ve been taking solace from the despair of the news in poetry that attempts to reconstitute tragedy, help us find a way forward, or let us think more deeply and differently about the issues. Matthew Olzmann’s