Paul Tran reads their poem “Copernicus” | Washington University

Paul Tran, a former senior poetry fellow in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, reads “Copernicus” in the university’s 560 Music Center. Originally published in The New Yorker, the poem will be featured in Tran’s debut collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling,” forthcoming from Penguin Books as part of the Penguin Poets Series. Tran is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and on faculty in WashU’s Summer Writers Institute. Appearing with Tran are poets Sarah Abbas, Bisa Adero, Majovah Bastien and Zack Lesmeister. Choreography is by Christopher Kim. This video was produced as part of a larger series that celebrates the contributions of poets and poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Copernicus (transcript) Who doesn’t know how doubt lifts the hem of its nightgown to reveal another inch of thigh before the face of faith? I once didn’t. I once thought I was my own geometry, my own geocentric planet spinning like a ballerina, alone at the center of the universe, at the command of a god opening my music box with his dirty mouth. He said Let there be light— And I thought I was the light. I was a man’s failed imagination. Now I know what appears as the motion of Heaven is just the motion of Earth. Not stars. Not whatever I want. Published in the January 20, 2020 print edition of the New Yorker issue: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/20/copernicus →Subscribe: http://bit.ly/WashUSubscribe About Washington University in St. Louis: Washington University is a leader in research, scholarship and patient care. Through our world-class faculty, students, physicians, staff, alumni and friends, WashU brings us closer to the knowledge that matters and the stories that inspire us to change the world. Get more from Washington University: Official site: https://wustl.edu The Source: https://source.wustl.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wustl/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wustl_official/?hl=en

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