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SWWIM Every Day — SWWIM

by Hyejung Kook I don’t know what to say. The sun is shining directly in my eyes, but I am driving. Risk blindness. Borges is mutter

Another belated publication update: my poem "At The Light" was the feature on SWWIM Every Day on April 19, 2024. I’m deeply grateful to the ever luminous Kai Coggin for inviting me to send work to SWWIM, an organization I’ve long admired, ever since seeing Naoko Fujimoto do a Zoom reading during the early part of the pandemic. Thanks to everyone at SWWIM for the beautiful work that you do!

“At the Light” emerged from a prompt at a panel on creating and nurturing virtual spaces last fall at the 2023 C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference. What I recall from the prompt: a prose poem, written in present tense, with the first and last phrase being the same, and the poem being comprised of a list of excuses. Nicole Callihan, Kai Coggin, Caitlin McDonnell, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Sara Wallace were the generous and inspiring panelists.

Thank you for reading and also listening—there’s also a link to my reading the poem!

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SWWIM Every Day just published my ekphrastic poem "Ride a Red Horse" at https://www.swwim.org/ as their poem of the day for May 3, 2019. The poem was inspired by Deborah Vinograd's painting at http://bit.ly/2vB7pw7 and by "Copper Kettle" sung by Joan Baez, which you can hear at http://bit.ly/2Lmsc17

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14 Daughter Poems From Moms, Dads, and Daughters | Book Riot

Daughter poems reveal how daughters grow and learn between the years of newborn to adulthood. Here's some of the best.

My poem "The Bonesetter's Daughter, which first appeared in SWWIM and which appears in my new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press, December 2018), " got a shout-out in Book Riot's "14 Daughter Poems From Moms, Dads, and Daughters"- https://bookriot.com/2019/01/02/daughter-poems/

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The Bonesetter's Daughter | Women Writers | Miami | SWWIM

She dreams of comfrey and burdock, feels through skin and spasmed muscles, waits for marrow to hit the heart. Pulls the stalks that serve for splints, boils the...

My poem “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is up at SWWIM. If you are moved to do so, please comment at the site.

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And friend, I swear, I swear, the years fucking burn.

E. Kristin Anderson, from “Down And Out,” published in SWWIM

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I let my rage have the stars.

E. Kristin Anderson, from “Down And Out,” published in SWWIM

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she is my anger: first comes this hunger, then abyss, then fire,

and then a nearly invisible fly made of ash goes on and on eating mouthful

          after mouthful of those I love.

— Ada Limón, from “Cannibal Woman,” published in SWWIM

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im back from swwimmin