Poem of the Week | November 14, 2016
Elizabeth Davey: "The Aquarium of the Americas"
This week, we are excited to offer a new poem by Elizabeth Davey. Davey received her MFA/PhD in poetry and American literature from Cornell University, but for most of her career she has led the environmental sustainability programs at Tulane University in New Orleans. She edited Remember My Sacrifice: The Autobiography of Clinton Clark, Tenant Farm Organizer and Early Civil Rights Activist (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), a previously unpublished manuscript held in the papers of poet Sterling A. Brown. Her poems have been published most recently in Split Rock Review (Fall 2015).
Author’s note:
“The Aquarium of the Americas” is from an unpublished manuscript titled The Mississippi, Unmuddied. It is one of several poems that draw parallels between the beauty and complexity of language and that of the natural world. The title is the name of the aquarium we visited on a rainy New Orleans day, but, looking at it again, I like that it begins with the letter “A.”
The Aquarium of the Americas
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