The Poetry Magazine Podcast: Ashley M. Jones and JoAnn Balingit in Conversation

 

my filipino father’s
art was to christen each child
with a mother’s memory

 

from “Tanaga: Song Where Every Filipinx Person Is Standing by the Ocean”  –JoAnn Balingit @jabalingit

POETRY magazine (@poetrymagazine) July/August 2021

 

This week, Ashley M. Jones and JoAnn Balingit talk about where poetry lives in the face of loss and grief, and how that intimate place can be shared. What does it mean to let the poem, the tree, be a bridge between us, between our identities, between the living and the dead?

 

Where does poetry live in the face of loss and grief?​

 

Read  Tanaga: Song Where Every Filipinx Person Is Standing by the Ocean from the July/August 2021 issue of Poetry. And listen to more of The Poetry Magazine Podcast! (I love Faisal Mohyuddin’s poem “Allah Castles” in the May issue of Poetry.)