Jana Prikryl
Out of the sheath dress
gently hopping, sparrow in the lot below
in the great complacency of summer...
from the book
Midwood /
W. W. Norton & Company
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.
In Books We’ve Loved, we asked our editorial board members and select guest editors to reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year, with the intention of creating a list of book recommendations for our valued readers.
- June 30, 2022
Boris Dralyuk
For those two minutes, she’ll make you believe:
Somewhere there’s music. It’s where you are.
- June 29, 2022
Jay Hopler
jay hopler was born the mint-condition-in-original-packaging-
action-figure-w/-kill-piggy-death-grip (collector’s edition)
- June 28, 2022
Yu Xiuhua (translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)
—when I flick a speck of cigarette ash, another has arisen I love someone to death Another is in my belly Rain sounds different in different places
- June 27, 2022
Threa Almontaser
As designated translator, I taste saffron, gold coins,
a slight burning. Since I’ve returned, there has been less
of me in English. Though return always meant measuring
the earth’s door, tongue ozoned and still learning
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