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A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"I had all these things cooking anyway, but the book sparked into life when I was at the Portland Art Museum and I saw the painting “Early Hour”, by Karl Hofer who was a German Expressionist painter who I really had no knowledge about, but this painting kind of caught me dead in my tracks. The more I looked at it the more I was totally overwhelmed by it, and mostly because it seems, on first glimpse, to be a pretty ordinary European painting. You know, it’s a naked guy and a naked woman in bed and in repose; they’ve got a dog at their feet. There’s a landscape in the background. But there’s just something spooky about it, and the guy starts to look really deathly the more you look at him. You know, then you look on the placard: it was painted in 1935, the guy’s a German, and then all of history sort of triangulates the foreboding tones."—Michael McGriff, An Interview
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A rising tide floats all boats?
Faith Hill and Karen Yuan on the rise of the Insta-poet. (The Atlantic)
"It's lucky. I have this freedom."
Shereen Marisol Meraji talks with MacArthur Fellowship winner Natalie Diaz about her award, and her work on social justice issues and her Mojave and Latina heritage. (All Things Considered)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "Manhattan," by Lola Ridge. (The Guardian)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents "The Ruts," by Kim Lozano. (American Life in Poetry)
Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust introduces "La Perla," by Doreen Stock. (Women's Voices for Change)
"A bloody and brutal verse novel"
Robin Robertson's The Long Take reviewed by John McAuliffe. (The Irish Times)
"Poetry Takes on Quantum Physics"
Poet Amy Catanzano "hopes that poetry can help physicists develop a more effective and accurate language..." (Physics)
"Lionel Trilling’s Hottest Takes"
Selections from Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, edited by Adam Kirsch. (Paris Review Daily)
"... an altogether more placid side..." to Larkin:
David Behrens on Philip Larkin: Letters Home 1936-1977, edited by James Booth. (Yorkshire Post)
"Brewerytown"
Rita Dove introduces a poem by Iain Haley Pollock. (The New York Times Magazine)
"Is All Art Sacred Art?"
Christian Wiman's He Held Radical Light:
The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art reviewed by Casey N. Cep. (The New York Times)
"Pithy and profound: the beauty of aphorisms"
Don Paterson's The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms reviewed by Alex Preston. (The Spectator)
"False counsellor"
Madeline Miller considers the dark heart of Odysseus. (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Time Warps Are Real and What You Should Do About It"
"All of us have been thinking about this kind of thing for years," says Anthony Madrid. (Paris Review Daily)
"Christian Wiman’s stubborn, slippery faith"
Nick Ripatrazone reviews He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art. (The Christian Century)
"Best collections to read this month"
Elizabeth Lund reviews books by Ursula K. Le Guin, Rae Armantrout, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Catherine Barnett, and Christian Wiman. (The Washington Post)
"... 'boys will be boys' is the 'stupidest' thing you could say"
Lora Strum talks with poet Fortesa Latifi about her poem "Boys Will Be Boys (And Why That Is The Stupidest Thing You Could Ever Say To A Little Girl)" (PBS NewsHour)
"Progress Report"
A short film of Dana Gioia's poem. (Blank Verse Films)
Recently Arrived Titles
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- Stars Shall Bend Their Voices: Poets' Favorite Hymns & Spiritual Songs, Jeffrey L. Johnson, ed. (Orison Books)
- Stet, Dora Malech (Princeton University Press)
- Running Upon the Wires, Kate Tempest (Bloomsbury Publishing)
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