Interview: "It’s an interpretive and imaginative failure to assume that someone’s poem is motivated by a misguided effort to pursue their therapy on the page."
(Electric Lit)
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https://electricliterature.com/charif-shanahan-book-poetry-collection-poems-interview-trace-evidence/
Report: "Guam native Craig Santos Perez is the first Pacific Islander to win the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry — and the first Pacific Islander to win in any category."
(Hawaii Public Radio)
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https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2023-11-30/local-poet-from-guam-is-the-first-pacific-islander-to-win-a-national-book-award
Essay: "This spring, I fell in love with John Gower, who died in 1408."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/archival-romance-on-finding-love-in-the-papers-of-an-obscure-medieval-poet/
Report: "Providing a close examination of Herrera in all his poetic variety, 'Our book stands out as the first critical collection of this outstanding and internationally known writer,' Lomelí said."
(The Current)
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https://news.ucsb.edu/2023/021277/compendium-chicano-poet-laureate-juan-felipe-herrera-strikes-gold
Conversation: Jesse Nathan holds a brief interview with Gary Snyder for McSweeney's.
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gary-snyder
Interview: "[James Tate] lived for poetry so it seems natural poetry would find its way into a lot of his poems just as love and life and death, beauty and truth and those blue antelope, babies and donkeys and dogs do."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/dara-barrois-dixon-on-the-lived-poetry-of-the-late-james-tate/
Essay: “Fellows are in workshops all morning, break for lunch and then go back into workshops all afternoon.”
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/arts/cave-canem-black-poets-collective.html
Essay: "Boyer’s resignation was not merely a protest against the continuous killing in Gaza."
(Salon)
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https://www.salon.com/2023/11/26/poetry-blindness-and-the-gaza/
Interview: "I take hope seriously. I write with and from that hope."—Maya C. Popa
(Poetry Society of America)
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https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/stopping-by/stopping-by-with-maya-popa
Report: "A new exhibit at Vassar College highlights the personal papers of the renowned 20th Century poet Elizabeth Bishop – with a fun twist."
(WAMC)
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https://www.wamc.org/news/2023-11-20/vassar-exhibit-examines-life-of-poet-alumna-elizabeth-bishop-through-her-postcards
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