Zócalo Public SquareFebruary Poetry Curator Brian Turner – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 February Poetry Curator Brian Turner https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/02/18/feb-poetry-curator-brian-turner/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/02/18/feb-poetry-curator-brian-turner/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:05:33 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=125690 Brian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the U.S. Army. The author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, he is also the editor of the anthology The Kiss and the recent memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country. As Zócalo’s first guest poetry curator for the 2022 Poetry Curator Series, he highlighted four poems in translation. We got a chance to chat with Brian in the green room, who told us about how he procrastinates with his dog (don’t we all?), painting with rice paper and ink, and the last poem that moved him.

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]]> Brian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the U.S. Army. The author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, he is also the editor of the anthology The Kiss and the recent memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country. As Zócalo’s first guest poetry curator for the 2022 Poetry Curator Series, he highlighted four poems in translation. We got a chance to chat with Brian in the green room, who told us about how he procrastinates with his dog (don’t we all?), painting with rice paper and ink, and the last poem that moved him.

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