And what I try to understand is the pull
of grace to formlessness, how someone could live inside
her head long enough to write it down and still know
how to caulk the tub, drive defensively, boil a perfect egg
from Rachel Bennett’s poem “American Ocarina”
Podium, the Poetry Center’s online literary journal, features poems and prose selected by instructors in our writing program, including Sandra Newman, Peter Cameron and Kathleen Ossip, as well as the winner of the 2014 Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize, as selected by the poet Randall Mann. |