ANOTHER WORLD IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, SHE IS ON HER WAY ON A QUIET DAY I CAN HEAR HER BREATHING*

A poetry pep talk/poetics essay/spell poem

EMILY CARR

In this moment of remarkable pressurebeing experienced by teachers / beingleveraged on teachers to do a good job todeliver the experience / pressure tocompensate for the present / pressure toshow your work show your worth / thesense that people are going into thissemester with a different kind ofvulnerability/…What calls do you answer. What fires cue your fire. Sara Jane Stoner, using excerpts from Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, “the university: last words”1 This poetry pep talk/poetics essay/spell poem is brought to you by the High Priestess, the Hermit, Judgment, and Justice and is part of a larger project of confusing poetics and living, living and magic, magic and poetics. I offer it to you as a welcome antidote to whatever personal hell you, too, are in—whether that involves healing from past trauma,…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, May/June 2022

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