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
www.bristol247.com
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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Interview: "Expose yourself to as much literature as you can while you're doing everything else that is asked of you, [so as] to protect that [literary] space and to think of [reading] as a source of joy, of perspective."
(The Beacon)
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Language and survival: a Q&A with poet Joan Naviyuk Kane
The Student Voice of the University of Portland Since 1935
www.upbeacon.com
Profile: "Poetry became an alternate form of travel to a place I couldn't go physically."
(The Harvard Crimson)
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Harvard Authors Profile: Darius Atefat-Peckham ’23 on Poetry as Sincerity and the Bridging of...
Harvard Authors Profile: Darius Atefat-Peckham ’23 on Poetry as Sincerity and the Bridging of Identities | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
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Conversation: "I wanted to situate my grandmother’s small individual story within the larger forces that shaped it, such as immigration, war, colonialism, capitalism, and history overall."
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Rick Barot
In Moving the Bones, Rick Barot’s newest, the project is both catastrophe and praise. But it begins, paradoxically...
www.mcsweeneys.net
Announcement: "Raymond Antrobus, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf are among the poets shortlisted for the 2024 TS Eliot prize."
(The Guardian)
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TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’
The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf
www.theguardian.com
Interview: "I want my poems to be responsive, permeable. When something seems to just present itself to me—whether a striking sight or an image in a dream, I have to take note."
(Poetry Society)
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An Interview with Rae Armantrout
Conversations with poets, editors, and artists.
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Announcement: "This year’s winners, announced Tuesday, range from ages 39 to 75, and their occupations include poet (Jericho Brown), violinist (Johnny Gandelsman), [and] cabaret performer (Justin Vivian Bond)."
(Washington Post)
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Meet the 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners
This year’s list of MacArthur “genius grant” fellows includes author Jason Reynolds and “Reservation Dogs” co-creator Sterlin Harjo.
www.washingtonpost.com
Essay: "Part of what draws me to retranslation, for example, is its conversational dynamic. I enjoy the process of engaging with and adding to other takes on a primary text."
(LARB)
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Why (Re)translation Matters | Los Angeles Review of Books
Paul Reitter discusses the aesthetic and cultural value of “retranslating” classic texts.
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Announcement: "ARIANA BENSON’s collection Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) has received the LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE." (Academy of American Poets)
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The Academy of American Poets Announces the 2024 Winners of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and...
New York, NY (September 26, 2024)—The Academy of American Poe
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What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.
- October 14, 2024
- October 13, 2024
- October 12, 2024
(t)his was the one answer i found. i forget to drink water. another omnitemporal question, this is the one that brought me to answer, how can i be black and wanting to be referred to & not mention my sister's, my mother's, my theydie's, my homies deaths in particular?
- October 11, 2024
- October 10, 2024
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