Poetry Northwest journal revived at Everett Community College
Poet Carolyn Kizer has led an extraordinary life. She won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry volume, "Yin." She was the first director of literature programs at the National Endowment for the Arts. A translator of Urdu, Chinese and Japanese poetry, she taught poetry at a series of prestigious institutions: the University of Iowa, Washington University, Stanford University.
She isn't writing poetry now; at 86, her health is frail, says her son-in-law David Rigsbee. But recently Kizer was presented with a gift that represented a resurrection of sorts: the latest issue of Poetry Northwest, the poetry journal she co-founded in 1959.
The revival of Poetry Northwest is the latest reincarnation of a journal that put the Pacific Northwest on the map of the poetry planet. After a tumultuous tenure at the University of Washington, suspension of publication for three years and a move to Portland, Poetry Northwest is back in the Puget Sound area, with offices at Everett Community College.
Kevin Craft, a poet and Everett Community College professor, engineered its return. "The idea of being involved in such a long literary tradition was irresistible," said Craft. The latest issue is a tribute to Kizer's work. As a woman poet of the mid-20th century, "she was overlooked. She struggled so much, even in a group that recognized her talents," said Craft.
Born and raised in Spokane, Kizer studied under Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington in the 1950s; other Roethke students of that era included poets Jack Gilbert, Richard Hugo and David Wagoner (the tart-tongued Kizer once called her fellow male poets "a nest of singing chauvinists.") Divorced from Stimson Bullitt, mother of three children, Kizer wrote poems that were brilliant formal compositions, but their intimate knowledge of a woman's predicament blazed through. Portions of her poem "Pro Femina" crystallized feminist discontent:
Knitting booties and brows, tartars or termagants, ancient
Her reputation as a poet widened, but she continued editing Poetry Northwest until 1965, when she left to take the NEA job. She turned the reins over to University of Washington English professor David Wagoner.
Wagoner would edit Poetry Northwest for 36 years. It achieved a national reputation — according to a 2002 Seattle Post-Intelligencer story by PI book critic John Marshall, it fielded 15,000 annual submissions. It published Harold Pinter, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Dillard, Raymond Carver, Ted Kooser, James Dickey, Robert Pinsky, Richard Wilbur, Wendell Berry, Charles Baxter, Mary Oliver, Edward Hirsch, Jorie Graham, Michael Harper and Mark Strand. The journal was supported by the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences, but it ran annual deficits in the thousands of dollars.
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She isn't writing poetry now; at 86, her health is frail, says her son-in-law David Rigsbee. But recently Kizer was presented with a gift that represented a resurrection of sorts: the latest issue of Poetry Northwest, the poetry journal she co-founded
As I walked yesterday with my sister, I reflected on the above poem and the plethora of other activities we can do outdoors that give us healthy exercise and invigorate our souls. Many years ago, during an especially stressful and difficult time in my
In addition, her “Summer Night Poem” was a provocative account of what one observes while riding a bus through New York. Meanwhile, poet and early founder of the Black Arts Movement, David Henderson shared “The Gift Outrage” by Calvin Hemton, a poem
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One of the poems in the book is, “Watkin's Laundry and Apothecary.” “This is about his time in school in Neosho, when he lived with Mariah Watkins,” she said. “She is the speaker of this poem and she is just talking about how this child came to live
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Worse than delivering a joke that falls flat is delivering a present that offends. Offensive presents induce not just embarrassment but guilt as well, a guilt that can flame up and redden cheeks even years after. Once I spearheaded a group gift of an adult tricycle for my mother, who was less ready to give up a two-wheeler than I had supposed. She never said so, but she must have found the tricycle as infantilizing as adult diapers. Which for the record I have never given anyone. (Also for the record, Eat This, Not That
I married you
for all the wrong reasons,
charmed by your
dangerous family history,
by the innocent muscles, bulging
like hidden weapons
under your shirt,
by your naive ties, the colors
of painted scraps of sunset.
I was charmed too
by your assumptions
about me: my serenity—
that mirror waiting to be cracked,
my flashy acrobatics with knives
in the kitchen.
How wrong we both were
each other,
and how we were happy.
I was surprised to find an answer along the lines of: "Thank you for thinking of me, but it's not really apply to us." I was baffled. I thought the poem was so full of hope and sweet, like a good omen for her wedding to come. Why not him?
My sister suggested that maybe he found offensive poem. A conversation with my nephew at his wedding confirmed the view of my sister, although Beau insisted he was not hurt, it just does not. But when pressed, he admitted that, to him, my sending I Married You . My nephew is one-half a couple that have been together for a long time, so they know each other well enough to have moved beyond the type of initial impressions outlined in the poem.
By way of apology, I’ll try to explain myself: for me the poem says that marriage is a long process of partners discovering each other. Accepting and loving those things we discover in the ensuing years–traits and interests that didn’t register with us at the beginning or that developed over time–is the beauty of commitment. Also, the outward characteristics that initially attracted partners to each other—bulging muscles, a cooking hobby, a calm demeanor—can change, but the truth of a person remains the same. When selecting a lifetime mate we unconsciously recognize these deeper truths, and if we’re lucky, those truths are ones we need and admire.
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