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C.D. Wright
We love in silence We keep our poetry locked in a glass cabinet Some nights We stay up passing it back and forth between us drinking deep

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“What Keeps Us: A Community Poetry Reading in Response to Violence” is about bearing witness. Community members are invited to read aloud a poem from the collection below, which I have curated in collaboration with the Poetry Daily editorial review committee, or to sit in intentional silence.

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Joe Hall
Accuracy without ambition is all I can ask for from a poem.

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Nora Hikari
Did you know tears are sieved blood? Spit, too. We are just one leaky vessel trying to keep everything in. Keep trying.

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Andrés Ajens (translated from the Spanish by Erín Moure)
a silence will have yet been spoken prior to the saying, its time, language and its metaphors, the ghastly potions, the wondrous ones, the neutral, one silence intercalated / between one, ibid and none,

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Christy Prahl
Here in the body museum, women speaking Hungarian rinse one another with buckets of water, warmed from a spigot in a turquoise room.

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Najwan Darwish (translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid)
Your name's like a ship with no hope of arriving, no hope of returning— It never arrives, and it never returns. It never arrives, and it never goes under.

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Jim Whiteside
a little point of ignition, a place where it wanted to burn

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Petra Kuppers
Hip bones sink and anchor on wood. Light rhythms paint the window. My gullet is empty, endless, a void slick with ground glass festers into pain, pulls me into time river, moonlight sucks down to snow.

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The sonnet is a device I often use, not necessarily as a formal frame but as a couplet structure to hold against my freewrite. This offers a scaffold toward something that can spread out on the page and take up space in the world.

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