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The 2019 Poetry Society Annual Awards are now open for submission.
We are now accepting submissions for all major award categories including poems, books, book publishers, students, chapbook fellowships, and more. Entries must be postmarked by December 23rd.
In Their Own Words
Poets and translators on their work.
Kristin Dykstra on Amanda Berenguer’s “Avec les gemissements graves du Montevideen”
By the time Amanda Berenguer (b. 1921) passed away in 2010, she had created a startling range of poems. Her first complete collection appeared in 1940. The last was published in the year of her death.
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John Keats
This living hand, now warm and capable
This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood,
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calm’d. See, here it is–
I hold it towards you.