"Grace" by Sarah Gambito

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 12, 2018   Grace   Sarah Gambito

You will transcend your ancestor's suffering You will pick a blue ball. You will throw it to yourself. You will be on the other side to receive.   Green leaves grow around your face.   Hair stands on your body. You look at old photographs   that say: The bread is warm!   A child is a blessing!   That's what I said!   I meant it! You could say this is a poem. Like the great halves of the roof   that caved and carved together. Found us before words and tender-footing.   Before wrongdoing   and the octaves of blue above us all.                Copyright © 2018 Sarah Gambito. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "I wanted this poem to be an out and out blessing. A zephyr that you don't have to work for." —Sarah Gambito   Sarah Gambito's latest poetry collection, Loves You, will be published by Persea Books in January of 2019. She is director of the creative writing program and an associate professor at Fordham University. She lives in New York City. Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths Poetry by Gambito   Loves You (Persea Books, 2019) "Hello I Must Be Going" by David Hernandez "Poetry Reading" by Anna Swir "from 'Surge'" by Etel Adnan October Guest Editor: Ross Gay   Thanks to Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Gay and our guest editors for the year. 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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