Cortney Lamar Charleston, today’s featured poet, reflects on Devotion.
The Jersey City resident gave this reading at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown for Poetry & Democracy, presented by the Dodge Poetry Program on March 23, 2019.
Charleston’s session, In Praise: A Hundred Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Earth, featured reflections on gratitude and our common humanity, by eight poets and the musical trio The Parkington Sisters.
Video: Cortney Lamar Charleston at ‘Poetry & Democracy’ in Morristown:
Here is more about the poet, from Dodge:
Cortney Lamar Charleston’s debut collection, Telepathologies, was selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, he also won a Pushcart Prize, was a two-time finalist for The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Granta, The Nation and many other publications. A poetry editor at The Rumpus and member of the Alice James Books editorial board, Charleston is originally from Chicagoland and now resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Featured poets were Janet Aalfs, Jan Beatty, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Catherine Doty, Rigoberto González, Joe Weil, and Rachel Wiley.
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