Poet and translator Cynthia Hogue on how borders work: Events today around border issues have brought back personal experience so eerily and uncannily as to seem to me the return of the repressed. The events recounted and per/formed in the excerpted poem that follows, “The… Continue Reading “Poetry at the Border 2: Cynthia Hogue”
mapping the nest
A selfish poet
I make photographs and poems to please myself (and share them to please you).
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