Today's poem is "Letters in Winter"
from Wound is the Origin of Wonder
Maya C. Popa
is the author of two collections, Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022) and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019) and three chapbooks. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry and writes the best-selling newsletter Poetry Today. The Poetry Editor of W.W. Norton's Weekly, she teaches at NYU and runs the online writing community Conscious Writers Collective.
Other poems on the web by Maya C. Popa:
"Dear Life"
"Autumn"
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Maya C. Popa's Website.
About Wound is the Origin of Wonder:
"Lyrical, beautiful, and descriptive."
"In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Maya C. Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure."
"Wound Is the Origin of Wonder showcases Popa's ability to weave together rich internal reflections with finely wrought observations of the natural world."
"The astounding poem 'Dear Life' opens this meditative and purposefully heart-decelerating second collection.... With an extraordinary poetic patience, Popa reminds us that a wound 'is where the light enters us.'"
"Staggering.... [T]he beauty and bravery of Popa's work, her gentle urgency and profound declarations of love, loss, and longing, resonate in the insistent hopefulness on which her poems ultimately land."
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