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Hot Springs by Davis McCombs

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October 7, 2016
 

Hot Springs

 
Davis McCombs
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About This Poem

 

"The form of 'Hot Springs' was inspired by Robert Francis's wonderful 'Silent Poem,' a poem I've loved and taught for years. When I sat down to write about Hot Springs National Park, I kept thinking about the two stressed syllables of the name 'Hot Springs' and it eventually led me to wonder if I could write a poem composed entirely of spondees and still manage to convey a sense, albeit fractured, of one of my favorite places in Arkansas."
—Davis McCombs

 

Davis McCombs is the author of lore (University of Utah Press, 2016). He directs the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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(University of Utah Press, 2016) 

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Imagine Our Parks with Poems

 

This poem was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Imagine Your Parks grant. Imagine Your Parks grants celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service and the 50th anniversary of the NEA by supporting projects that use the arts to engage people with the memorable places and landscapes of the National Park System in 2016. Read more poems about our National Parks.

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