"Guess who's applying for a job?" joked Edward Hirsch as we gathered for a group photo to mark his visit to our office. He stopped by to sign copies of his book, "The Heart of American Poetry," and to chat with us about poetry, being a poet, and life. We also shared a lot of laughs.
📷 Thanks to Tatyana at @ABRAMSbooks for the group pic.
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ALT Black text on a blue background displays the poem "In the Next Galaxy" by Ruth Stone.
Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
new wrap-around verandas.
The idea of Hitler will not
have vibrated yet.
While back here,
they are still cleaning out
pockets of wrinkled
Nazis hiding in Argentina.
But in the next galaxy,
certain planets will have true
blue skies and drinking water.
ALT Black text on a blue background displays the poem "Knoxville, Tennessee" by Nikki Giovanni as follows:
I always like summer
best
you can eat fresh corn
from daddy's garden
and okra
and greens
and cabbage
and lots of
barbecue
and buttermilk
and homemade ice-cream
at the church picnic
and listen to
ALT gospel music
outside
at the church
homecoming
and go to the mountains with
your grandmother
and go barefooted
and be warm
all the time
not only when you go to bed
and sleep
ALT Black text on a blue background displays the poem We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks as follows:
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
ALT Black text on a blue background displays the poem Farewell by Federico García Lorca, translated by Jenny Minniti-Shippey, as follows:
If I die,
Leave the balcony open.
The boy is eating oranges.
(From my balcony I hear him.)
The reaper scythes the wheat.
(From my balcony I feel it.)
If I die,
Leave the balcony open!
ALT Despedida
Si muero,
dejad el balcón abierto.
El niño come naranjas.
(Desde mi balcón lo veo).
El segador siega el trigo.
(Desde mi balcón lo siento).
¡Si muero,
dejad el balcón abierto!
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