Lyric Poetry

Joy Harjo

Shelter in Poems

The Blaney Lecture

Renee Nicole Good’s poem on the Academy of American Poets website (poets.org), for which she won the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize, is a really interesting piece and very telling. It’s ironically titled “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.” I encourage you to look it up, read it, and take it in. From the mountaintops, I will continue to exclaim that conservatives hate art. They hate art they want to be. They want art to be either propaganda or entertainment—and even then, the entertainment

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