"Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels" by Paola Capó-García

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 12, 2018   Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels   Paola Capó-García

Poem in which I have wisdom. Poem in which I have a father. Poem in which I care. Poem in which I am from another country. Poem in which I Spanish. Poem in which flowers are important. Poem in which I make pretty gestures. Poem in which I am a Deceptacon. Poem in which I am a novelist. Poem in which I use trash. Poem in which I am a baby. Poem in which I swaddle. Poem in which I bathe. Poem in which I am a box. Poem in which its face is everything. Poem in which faces are everywhere. Poem in which I swear. Poem in which I take an oath. Poem in which I make a joke. Poem in which I can't move.                Copyright © 2018 Paola Capó-García. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "I like writing list poems because I'm interested in insistence and association via language. I rarely plan my poems or start with notes, but I wanted to create a list of ideas for poems I would never actually end up writing—a list of scenarios that felt like familiar expectations of poems (e.g., flowers, prettiness, wisdom) and some that mapped out my own anxieties about poetry. I wanted a claustrophobic poem that also felt open and endless, where the speaker's identity could shift and shift and shift." —Paola Capó-García   Paola Capó-García is a poet and translator from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her book Clap for Me That's Not Me, winner of the 2017 Black Box Poetry Prize, is forthcoming from Rescue Press this year. She is the cofounder and editor, with Maria Flaccavento, of littletell and lives in San Diego. "Words" by John Keene "A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades" by June Jordan "If you look closely enough at a word, you'll find it contains its opposite*" by Stephanie Gray June Guest Editor: D. A. Powell   Thanks to D. A. Powell, author of Repast: Tea, Lunch, Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2014), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Powell and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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