Essay: "One of the goals of experimental writing like Choi’s is to disrupt official narratives, histories, and images along with, more importantly, their meanings ... because narrative is a prime vehicle in which to smoothly embed them."
(e-flux)
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Disperse the Nation: Don Mee Choi’s Poetry Trilogy - Journal #149

Alan Gilbert explores diaspora and nationalism in Don Mee Choi’s poetry books Hardly War, DMZ Colony, and Mirror Nation.

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Essay: "The story of Dylan is a story of big talent, scurrilous gossip, silliness, grift, technological and social change, and excellence thriving quietly in plain sight."
(LitHub)
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“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets

This one’s personal. Dylan Thomas bestrides modern Welsh poetry like a chubby-cheeked, shabby-blazered colossus. Any W...

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Profile: "The loss that we are facing is not only individual loss. It’s not personal loss. It’s a collective loss. When we lose a family, it’s my family. When a house is bombed, it is my house."
(The Guardian)
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The exile of Mosab Abu Toha: how a Gazan poet was forced to flee his home

His house was bombed and his relatives killed, before he escaped to the US. Now he is on a relentless, restles...

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Conversation: "This collection, therefore, understands the private and public implications of home, and I have found it to be a work that has allowed me to discover the nuances of home."
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Kwame Dawes

What Kwame Dawes does in Sturge Town, his far-reaching new collection, is what he’s done book after book: create...

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Report: "Yesterday, a ballistic Russian missile hit Zaporizhzhia and killed eight civilians, but tonight we have poetry readings here."
(The Guardian)
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‘Yesterday a missile hit. Tonight, we have poetry’: the writers drawing crowds on Ukraine’s...

As Ukraine remains under Russian bombardment and the election of Trump adds a new level of fear, its residents a...

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Retrospective: "'The news is so joyous' was the first thing that poet Paula Meehan said when I sat down to speak with her ... the decision to rename the Berkeley Library as The Eavan Boland Library."
(University Times)
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The Eavan Boland Legacy

Discussing the poet’s life and work with the poet Paula Meehan.

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Report: "I see her work as trying to return again and again to that playful, erotic exchange with language and other materials, piecing together the remnants of that original pleasure and hope derived from youthful exploration."
(The Crimson)
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Singing Poetry with Illustrations: Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry Performance with Translator Rosa Alcalá...

Singing Poetry with Illustrations: Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry Performance with Translator Rosa Alcalá at T.S. Eliot Mem...

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Essay: "This brought home to me that a poem is embedded in a matrix of silence. So that even if the words celebrate what is, each line acknowledges what is not."
(The Reader)
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Profile: "I’m particularly interested in civic history because of the ways that cities use, rewrite, and often weaponize their histories as promotional agents, or as ways of ignoring populations.”
(Style Weekly)
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Surrealistic Zillow

Poet Mathias Svalina is giving surrealist walking tours of Richmond that involve pointing to buildings and lying about them.

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Interview: "Increasingly, I believe poetry should exist in places of rest, rest enough to let the self think (let resonate, let wonder, read aloud, hear in the heart’s ear)."
(Poets House)
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Interview: Sophie Cabot Black on Listening

Sophie Cabot Black speaks with Poets House about the tethers of community, how to truly listen, and poetry as a place of rest.

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