Essay: "Maybe the concepts of distance and in-betweenness have been part of my imagination ever since I was little."
(Poetry Society of America)
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https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/in-their-own-words/carolina-ebeid-on-punctum-sawing-a-woman-in-half
Essay: "The professor and critic will be remembered for her brilliant books, but teaching brought her genius to the fore."
(New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/helen-vendlers-generous-mind
Profile: "When Kevin Young ’92 came to Harvard as an undergraduate, he dreamed of becoming a poet."
(Harvard Gazette)
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/acclaimed-poet-receives-arts-medal/
Retrospective: "Again, I half suspected Jerry thought he’d be writing my eulogy before I had to write his."
(Jacket2)
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https://jacket2.org/commentary/jerome-rothenberg-december-11-1931-%E2%80%93-april-21-2024
Essay: "...most Shakespeare fans have rarely met an adaptive concept they didn’t like."
(JSTOR)
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https://daily.jstor.org/shakespeare-and-fanfiction/
Interview: "The letters that have moved me are letters from older writers who never knew that writing was possible, and they wrote their first poem and wanted me to see it."
(P&W)
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https://www.pw.org/content/qa_maldonado_leads_the_academy
Interview: "The art that I really care about is the art that I carry with me into the future."
(Adroit)
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https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-nine/a-conversation-with-annelyse-gelman/
Conversation: "Titles have a way of migrating."
(Commonwealth)
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/literary-homeland
Essay: "In Gawain we encounter the terrifying prospect that our civilized places are vulnerable to total annihilation."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/what-medieval-poets-can-teach-us-about-climate-change-and-what-evangelicals-today-get-wrong/
Obituary: Helen Vendler has passed away at age 90.
(Boston Globe)
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/metro/helen-vendler-towering-presence-poetry-criticism-dies-90/
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