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Nov 11, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Camille Rankine
Sharp night, a naked light, your voice come back over and over. Bright night’s incessant afterglow, and the day won’t take me back. Quarter to three, night’s heavy limb across my chest. Night closing its capacious robes over me. Unremembered night, the night I loved you best. Nightingale’s song, your damp curls against my neck. Night they put you in my arms. That winter night, the early dark, your breath marking the air.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Camille Rankine
Poet Omotara James and host Camille Rankine explore the tension between vulnerability and confidence in poetry. They also delve into the language of pleasure and cruelty as well as the importance of subverting tropes.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
poets.org | Trish Salah |Camille Rankine |George Abraham
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Camille Rankine
Poet Ama Codjoe talks to host Camille Rankine about her version of paradise, how dance influenced her writing, and why community can be crucial for poets. In this episode Codjoe reads her poem "Heaven as Olympic Spa" [Koreatown, Los Angeles} from her book Bluest Nude and talks about the appearance of two other famous poets in the poem, Gwendolyn Brooks and Wanda Coleman.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Camille Rankine
Poet John Murillo delves into reckoning, the definition of masculinity and how we fictionalize memory in his wide-ranging conversation with host Camille Rankine in the first episode of The Glimpse. Poems featured in this episode include Murillo's poem "On Confessionalism” and Etheridge Knight's poem “Cop-Out Session.”
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Camille Rankine
3 episodes The Glimpse features lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them. Our host, poet Camille Rankine, takes listeners on a thoughtful, reverent, and spirited journey through poetics, craft, and personal history. Guest poets include John Murillo, Ama Codjoe, Kaveh Akbar, Hafizah Geter, Chen Chen, Solmaz Sharif, Rachel McKibbens, and Omotara James.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
thebeliever.net | Camille Rankine
Camille Rankine To grieve an American grief a delicate feeling: from afar wistful and brief To grow soft on the milk of America thick with its sleep To export its ruin outspend its disease To live in a house with death in its walls bent-backed in its building to wander its halls vigilant in the dark To be born in the hold of this dream burnt black in its glare pick the fruit from its tree turn its fruits in my hands leave the bruised to their rot take my choice cut of meat To be shaped by a...
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Camille Rankine
a man I’ve never met tells me to open like a flower but a flower cut too soon won’t soften into bloom it stays like a fist so like a fist I leave a mark and all the heart I have inside this tidy vessel I’m disruption the peace the room your shining story I unsettle I blemish I bloody the ring with my memory of you we walk in circles all these bodies underfoot my future like it was yesterday we’ve lived this all before a past we’re both bound to in simpler times you’d call me savage a...
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Apr 7, 2023 | 
poets.org | Carl Phillips |Camille Rankine |Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz |Sharon Dolin
What have I To say in my wrong tongue Of what is gone To know something is Lost but what You have forgotten what You long forgot If I am What survives I am here but I am not Much of anything at all To be what’s left And all the rest scooped out And dropped into the sea My flesh Forming a knot on itself is a habit Learned from whom A mind reaching back Into the dark a body releasing itself Backward into space a faith I have no prayer in which to keep Am I home or merely caught Between two...
