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Ryan Eckes

from the book Wrong Heaven Again / Birds LLC

Essay: "Sylvia’s diaries, meticulously kept for almost every day from 1944 to 1949, reflect her early realization that you could broadcast your own life, as Jack Benny did on his radio show (another of her favorites)."
(Lit Hub)
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How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

For two weeks in July 1944, Sylvia Plath attended Camp Helen Storrow at Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts, averaging a ...

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Retrospective: "He pointed out that, in the past, poetry books were bestsellers, and poetry needed to have its own category recognized. We voted and added poetry unanimously."
(Publishers Weekly)
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Looking Back at 75 Years of the National Book Awards

This year, the National Book Foundation celebrated the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards. To mark the m...

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Essay: "Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an epic reflection on political defeat and the possibility of hope."
(Jacobin)
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John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mourned a Revolution Betrayed

John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind,...

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Report: "A museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet and satirist Lord Byron is due to open in ... Ravenna, housed in the same building where he pursued an intense affair with the wife of an aristocrat."
(The Guardian)
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Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair

Visitors will be able to explore Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where Byron romanced its aristocrat owner’s wife

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Essay: "Pope’s masterpiece was born of the union of a number of grudges."
(Lit Hub)
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“Make it New… Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

Alexander Pope is hardly an unknown quantity. Born in London to a family of merchants in 1688 and buried in a ...

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Obituary: "Henry Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia ... died Oct. 13 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
(Washington Post)
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Henry Taylor, prize-winning poet with an eye on rural life, dies at 82

He won a Pulitzer for “The Flying Change,” a 1985 collection reflecting his love of horses and his upbringing in Virginia hunt country.

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Profile: "Rowan Ricardo Phillips was recognized for his most recent volume of poetry, Silver, which made the longlist for both the National Book Award and for the Laurel Prize."
(Stony Brook University News)
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips Shares Insight into Poetry & Process

Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips read from his works and discussed his ...

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Announcement: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha has won the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry.
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Here are the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards…

After a long ceremony and lots of wonderful speeches about books, presenting the winners of the 2024 National Book...

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Interview: "I think an attentiveness to the way that place influences and is a part of human perception is something that we haven’t always taken into account."
(Creative Independent)
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On cultivating openness

Poet and translator Forrest Gander on walking the San Andreas Fault, translation as a giving up of ego, and deep...

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Obituary: "Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died aged 92."
(The Guardian)
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Shuntaro Tanikawa, giant of Japanese poetry, dies aged 92

The poet also wrote the lyrics for the Astro Boy theme song and translated Peanuts into Japanese

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What Sparks Poetry

Building Community

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

In our occasional series, Building Community, we spotlight connections between our work on the page and our work in the community. In each issue, we pair a poem from our featured poet with an interview that explores what poetry brings to our neighborhoods, cities, and the wider world — and what community makes possible for poetry itself.

This week's issue: Lloyd Wallace on What Keeps Us: Poems to Read in Community

Catch Up on Recent Poems

December 4, 2024

Herman’s Bones

Amalia Bueno

I wen look up up at da stars, and das when, inside da stars I seen all da bones

December 3, 2024

Giving Up Reason

Pam Rehm

I'm bewildered by all the dollars I've spent on a life out of balance when there's all this cosmic consciousness within a kiss

December 2, 2024

What Keeps

C.D. Wright

Some nights We stay up passing it back and forth between us drinking deep

December 1, 2024

(the dmz) as the gender binary

Yunkyo Moon-Kim

korea is an oxymoron, for when has a halving so visible been so indivisible?

November 30, 2024

what the angels eat

Tyree Daye

the flies made a mess of our dancing the flies made a dance in our messes

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