The Tuesday Poem

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This week's Tuesday Poem -- 20 January 2015 -- is by US poet James Owens, and was first published in Blue Five Notebook's December 2014 special issue, which featured ekphrastic writing by poets and fiction writers based on five artworks. Owens wrote his poem 'Imagine a Woman Behind Razor Wire, Glimpsed' in response to a photograph by artist Cheryl Dodds, also featured at the Tuesday Poem site. 

In the poet's commentary, he writes:  

My initial reaction to Cheryl Dodds’s extraordinary photograph was the thought, this forbids speech. The voice is caged. Not “the woman is caged” but her voice. Then there was long silence, while I wondered what I meant by that. I’m still not quite sure, though the poem makes little forays in that direction.

The poem and poet commentary  can be read in its entirety at the Tuesday Poem blog this week. 

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