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Temporal Saturation

The measurement of temporal saturation then can be used to quantify both the abscesses and the vividities, these gestures floating in great swathes of meaningless automation.

Chloe Garcia Roberts

from the book Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology / co•im•press

Announcement: Marie Howe wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
(Pulitzer)
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2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists

2024 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists

www.pulitzer.org

Profile: "Kearney points out, Lamar’s signifying—the clever use of indirect language and imagery to convey complex ideas—is one of the hallmarks of Black art and is integral to understanding both Lamar’s performance and Kearney’s own poetry."
(PW)
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Double Dreaming, Double Imagining: A Profile of Douglas Kearney

In the poetry collection I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, Douglas Kearney shatters traditional expectations by...

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Profile: "And just before Brooks took her final breath, her daughter placed a pen in her hand."
(Chicago Tribune)
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Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote of life’s also-rans

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually be...

www.chicagotribune.com

Profile: "There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of self-discovery."
(Nobel Prize)
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https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/fighting-oppression-with-poetry/

Conversation: "And isn’t that what poetry writing is like? Navigating a new floor plan without any lights? Or building the house itself as you wander through bare boards and beams?"
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Derek Mong

Derek Mong writes a poetry that’s part of a growing canon of fatherhood verse. Work made in the light of lit...

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Profile: "You use the past. You do not worship it—you consult it. And one of the obligations to the poetry…you are obliged not just to keep it alive, but to change it and contribute to it and adapt it and keep it alive by making it new."
(BU)
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Robert Pinsky, America’s Ambassador for Poetry, Retiring from Teaching after 36 Years at BU, More...

University will honor the award-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate Thursday, when he’ll do a public reading

www.bu.edu

Announcement: "Poets & Writers announced Monday that Cyrus Cassells is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize."
(WTOP)
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Poet Cyrus Cassells receives $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize for ‘exceptional talent’ - WTOP News

NEW YORK (AP) — An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of H...

wtop.com

Essay: "If we want to keep these communities dynamic, we should work hard to keep them weird ... That reputation sometimes stems not from bacchanalian excess, but rather from a refusal to accept the status quo."
(Public Books)
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“Poetry City”: Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth.

www.publicbooks.org

Announcement: "The Griffin Poetry Prize—the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry in English—announced is 2025 shortlist."
(Lit Hub)
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Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in ...

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Profile: "I liked the compression and musicality of poetry ... I knew no other form of writing that was so thrilling and compelling."
(New Mexico Magazine)
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Arthur Sze's Sensory Poems and Santa Fe Legacy

As poet Arthur Sze publishes two new books this month, a tide of literary lifetime achievement awards continues to...

www.newmexicomagazine.org

What Sparks Poetry

Drafts

This week's issue: Siddhartha Menon on Epigraphs and “Captivity”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

May 18, 2025

Water Sons

Terri Witek

Outside, mowers===another plan to be happy.

May 17, 2025

Remote Disjunctions

Mónica de la Torre

And I'd be picturing, those last days, rhizomes and spores.

May 16, 2025

Yonder

Bob Hicok

....whatever this is, please let it be enough for me,

May 15, 2025

Meditations in a War Zone

Essex Hemphill

It is not a singing circle of protest, nor an embrace of mourning

May 14, 2025

To Whom Should We Recite the Time

Nasser Rabah (translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, & Khaled al-Hilli)

The war left me only those who died to call friends. I bless night and light a votive candle so they pass through me in a dream, like a scalpel or a cough, it left me no heart

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