The World Keeps Turning to Light

A Renga by the State Poets Laureate of America.

“Every poem is a conversation with other poems, some more explicitly than others. This version of the Japanese conversational tradition, the renga, rings with the give-and-take of three dozen lively voices, laureates, in the best sense of the word, using their verse to commemorate and celebrate in our name. Here, speaking to one another, they speak to us all about ourselves.”  J. Kates, poet, translator & executive co-director of Zephyr Press.