How to Grow a Poem

How to Grow a Poem

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How to Grow a Poem
"She is the sign/isn't she?"

"She is the sign/isn't she?"

"The Moth in Your Kitchen," a poem by Jiwon Choi

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Kenneth Salzmann
Nov 04, 2023
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Jiwon Choi said she was walking in Brooklyn’s storied Green-Wood Cemetery when the poem was “conjured in my head.”

One of the vanguard cemeteries of the 19th century “rural cemetery” movement, Green-Wood is a place of beauty and tranquility in the heart of Brooklyn busyness. It is an urban greenspace, a sanctuary for flora and fauna alike, and the “etern…

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