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Jena Osman

the flow of dark money through the pipes of the party sounded like shells in a jar like bees in a hive

from the book A Very Large Array / DABA

Essay: "Not long ago, I found myself in the remote Chihuahuan Desert driving a rented SUV across a rocky landscape of eroded outcrops, yawning arroyos, and slippery alluvial fans en route to meet a team of researchers."
(BOMB)
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BOMB Magazine | In the Company of Rattlesnakes

On an expedition in the Chihuahuan Desert, the poet learns to see the “much-maligned rattlesnake.”

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Essay: "Writing poems gave me refuge, even though these poems had always been the companion to the anti-academic book I’d finished, shadowing it like lead on the underside of a page."
(Lit Hub)
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Between Agency and Fate: Towards a New Poetics of Illness and Healing

I called the hypnotherapist and left my voice. The next day we spoke: What did I want? To clear blocks. To s...

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Announcement: "Naomi Shihab Nye has won the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award, which recognizes 'outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry'"...
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Naomi Shihab Nye has won the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement.

This morning, the Academy of American Poets announced this year’s recipients of two of its major prizes: the Wal...

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Conversation: "I think my notebook is a bulwark against loss."
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Catherine Barnett

One of the many things that makes Catherine Barnett’s work so compelling is her willingness to look doubt and ...

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Essay: "Mark Leidner is like that. The poems are always razor sharp. They give you a cut so fine, you don’t notice you are getting it."
(Brooklyn Rail)
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Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidner's Poetry | The Brooklyn Rail

The title of Mark Leidner’s new gorgeously made book Returning the Sword to the Stone is apt. Like a reverse ...

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Announcement: "In a year where AI is dominating the headlines, these translations all attest that AI will never be able to replace the artistry, nuance, and risk that characterizes the work of human translators."
(Lit Hub)
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Here are the shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in poetry and prose.

Today, the American Literary Translators Association announced its shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards, ...

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Interview: "As I was writing the poem, I was thinking about Prospect Park as a structured space that still allows for a feeling of spontaneity and agency. You’re able to forget that your movement is part of a large and complex system."
(LARB)
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Desire Lines | Los Angeles Review of Books

C. Francis Fisher interviews Madeleine Cravens about her debut book of poems, “Pleasure Principle.”

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Announcement: "The 2024 Forward prizes for poetry have been awarded to ...Victoria Chang ... for best collection; Marjorie Lotfi’s book [for] best first collection; Cindy Juyoung Ok won the prize for the best single poem (written)."
(The Guardian)
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Forward poetry prize goes to Victoria Chang for collection inspired by painter Agnes Martin

Chang’s With My Back to the World takes the main £10,000 award while Marjorie Lotfi, Cindy Juyoung Ok and Ley...

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Profile: "“Fundamentally, Hot Sauce is an archive of memories, shaped by my upbringing in a working-class town in Hampshire. The poems reflect on how the sense of a ‘place’ can be ever-changing."
(Bristol 24/7)
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‘A major talent in the making’: Bristol-based poet Kaycee Hill

Hill will be headlining monthly poetry night ‘Under The Red Guitar’ in February

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Essay: "Like many Russian poems, Yeremenko’s seem to call for pages of footnotes to explain the references."
(Lit Hub)
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Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Nina Iskrenko was a mother of two. She was educated as a physicist, though she wanted to study music. One of ...

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Language as Form

In our series Language as Form, we’ve invited poets to write about poetic language as patterned language—how words as sound, voice, sentence, and song become elements of form.

This week's issue: Philip Metres on “Qasida for Abdel Wahab Yousif”

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October 21, 2024

Qasida for Abdel Wahab Yousif

Philip Metres

Ya Abdel, I dreamt of you last night, holding the sea in your arms like a lover, you kissing its wet mouth, you at last at rest in its endless bed

October 20, 2024

Spousal

Joan Houlihan

See my wig? Woven over time, like my attachment to you.

October 19, 2024

“Tis Not Too Late to Seek a Newer World” Tennyson

Cody-Rose Clevidence

Eden of the shore, vasectomy of the heavens, ambiguity of prayer.

October 18, 2024

Corona de Cristo

Bianca Alyssa Pérez

A magnificent halo of ruby blooms— small glistening gems of blood.

October 17, 2024

Between the Night & Its Music

A.B. Spellman

between the voice & the word is the thought between the thought & the voice is the self

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