WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 27, 2024

Congratulations to Miriam Levine whose book Forget about Sleep was published this month by NYQ Press as winner of the of the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award, chosen by José Antonio Rodríguez. This is what I wrote for the book jacket—

Miriam Levine's Forget about Sleep is a love letter to our world, an ode to memory and all she has wistfully stored. “Such terrible things in this world,” it's true, and yet Levine holds on to all that is bright—daffodils, Zebra longwings, victory gardens, the moon, and the sea. Celebratory, clear-eyed, meditative, Levine's poems are mature and honest renderings on our humanness. 

You can read three of her gorgeous poems here:

https://www.ronslate.com/exclusion-in-the-park-and-union-street/

Comments

[Terence Winch]

Thanks, Denise (but that link doesn't seem to take us to the 3 poems you mention).