{"id":20021,"date":"2023-04-21T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-martha-zweig\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:55:14","slug":"poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-martha-zweig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-martha-zweig\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Month celebration continues with a poem by Martha Zweig"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, the entire campus community is invited to join the Campus Poetry Project sponsored by the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.<\/h4>\n

Throughout April, be on the lookout for poetry postings in the\u00a0Campus Chronicle <\/em>and on digital monitors across campus, as well as our cardboard poet cutouts and poetry lawn signs. Take a selfie with your favorite poet!<\/p>\n

This year, the American Academy of Poets<\/em><\/a> is highlighting this verse: “we were all made for something” (Ada Limon). That is why we decided to focus on poems about work this year. We’ll include songs and lyrics about work, too! (Below is the official 2023 National Poetry Month poster from the American Academy of Poets<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Also,\u00a0\"\"please click here<\/a> for a link to 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month in the classroom (or anywhere).<\/p>\n

Today’s Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This Work”
\nby Martha Zweig<\/p>\n

The cold orange hands of the
\nsalamanders still wrap and
\nunwrap the baby he dreams he was
\nthen long before there was any human family.
\nThen their work was just beginning on the
\ndamp stones and mosses too.<\/p>\n

He had to be as little strange as
\npossible. They were
\nmaking the world & working on him too. He
\nwas warmer but less
\nstrange than a moss or a stone
\nwas, that saved him.<\/p>\n

The moss worked on the stone too.
\nThe stone worked
\non him like a mind he
\nhad to grow up to talk to or
\ndream to but without
\nturning strange. The<\/p>\n

cold hands run over him.
\nThey read the body he
\ndreams of as a baby’s to the
\nstone. Before there was any
\nhuman family the work that made him was
\nthis work just beginning.<\/p>\n

From “What Kind” by Martha Zweig. Copyright \u00a9 2003 by Martha Zweig. Reproduced by permission of Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved.<\/h6>\n
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Martha Zweig<\/strong> is the author of “Monkey Lightning” (Tupelo Press, 2010), “What Kind: (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), and “Vinegar Bone” Wesleyan University Press, 1999). She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers\u2019 Award. She lives in Vermont.
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Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:55:14 +0000 by\u00a0j.austin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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