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| cities as fathers | (excerpt)

I hold your name. My patronymic. It holds me.

olga mikolaivna

from the book | cities as fathers | / Tilted House

Essay: "Beyond these keenly observed and beautifully rendered descriptions of Palestine’s tragedy, Joudah’s poems offer a startling diagnosis of our narrowing political horizons and even a prognosis for how we might act within them."
(The Nation)
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Fady Joudah’s Poetry of Dislocation

In his new book of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile ...

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Announcement: "This year’s TS Eliot prize for poetry has been awarded to Michigan-born Peter Gizzi for Fierce Elegy..."
(The Guardian)
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‘Transcendental beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy wins him TS Eliot poetry prize

Judges for the £25,00 award say the collection, informed by grief for his two brothers, ‘braves large questions’ with its lyric sequence

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Report: "Dallas-based Deep Vellum Publishing has acquired Fum d'Estampa Press, the British small press focused on publishing literature in translation..."
(PW)
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Deep Vellum Acquires U.K. Translation Publisher Fum d'Estampa

Dallas-based Deep Vellum Publishing has acquired Fum d'Estampa Press, a British small press founded in 2020 that has...

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Interview: "I hope, after I’m gone, my work will inspire the next generation of CHamoru writers to carry on the struggle and to keep writing towards freedom."
(BOMB Magazine)
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BOMB Magazine | Craig Santos Perez by Diana Arterian

Remapping Guåhan with decolonial poetry.

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Profile: "Luther Hughes was 12 years old when poetry made its first impact on them."
(Seattle Mag)
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Most Influential: Luther Hughes

Uncover the beauty and depth of Luther Hughes' poetry. Dive into their exploration of human behavior through vivid imagery and powerful language.

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Conversation: "When we want to articulate what at first seems impossible to parse out in words, when we want to probe, where else are we to turn, but poetry?"
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Carol Moldaw

One of the many pleasures of Carol Moldaw’s seventh collection, Go Figure, is its fidelity to description. “Bulb...

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Essay: "Epics have often shored up empires."
(The Nation)
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Why Is the Right Obsessed With Epic Poetry?

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war.

www.thenation.com

Interview: "For me a good poem has to have charm. That is, charm in the deeper sense of that word — magic."
(Post and Courier)
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A Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser, of Garland, Neb., served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005.

www.postandcourier.com

Essay: "[Loy] has been grouped with the futurists, Dadaists, surrealists, and feminists and described as a poet, a painter, a critic, a model, and an art dealer. The woman was all of those things and none of them."
(LARB)
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Complexity as a Liberatory Practice | Los Angeles Review of Books

Tara Anne Dalbow explores artist-poet Mina Loy’s thrilling embrace of contradiction.

lareviewofbooks.org

Report: "It’s a little weird that Nashville doesn’t have a poet laureate."
(Nashville Scene)
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Despite a Thriving Literary Scene, Nashville Lacks a Poet Laureate

Asking poets about what an established laureate could bring to the city

www.nashvillescene.com

What Sparks Poetry

Books We've Loved

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.

In Books We’ve Loved, we’ve asked our editorial board members and select guest editors to reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year, with the intention of creating a list of book recommendations for our valued readers.

This week's issue: Henri Cole on James Longenbach’s “In the Village”

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January 20, 2025

In the Village

James Longenbach

Shortly before I died, Or possibly after, I moved to a small village by the sea.

January 19, 2025

A Note on Solitude

Saúl Hernández

When a winter storm hit Texas, the bluebonnet field sounded like glass.

January 18, 2025

Evolution

Margaret Ross

I smelled the corpses on my fingers when I took my smoke break

January 17, 2025

Good Riddance

DeeSoul Carson

A visual poem by DeeSoul Carson

January 16, 2025

Pleasure

Rick Barot

You are told to believe in one paradise and then there is the paradise you come to know.

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