RESISTING THE NARROWING OF COMMUNITY: BARBARA JANE REYES

Those who are familiar with MARGENTO's graph-poem poetics know to what substantial extent community is at the heart of our preoccupations, since to us poetry is community and communities are poetry. Here is some inspirational prose on poetry communities by poet Barbara Jane Reyes as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month curated by Kenji C. Liu on the Best American Poetry website. Reyes's piece also contains a link to her latest contribution to the Poetry Foundation Blog -- led by Ilya Kaminsky -- on communities (part of a wider National Poetry Month literary inquiry also involving other poets on the same and other topics).

When Kenji Liu invited me here to write about APIA poetry communities, I confess, I wanted to rant about the criticisms I have... MORE HERE