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Horse Horse Hyphen Hyphen

Marilyn Chin

There are days when the sun is a great gash Nights, the moon smokes hashish and falls asleep on your lap Sorry, but your morphing was not satisfactory Shapeshifter, you choked on your magic scarf

from the book Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems / W. W. Norton & Company

Column: "Poetry and science should not be treated as disparate disciplines, but instead should be considered as colleagues who together have the potential to diversify and develop science." (Scientific American)
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New Hampshire Laureateship: "Gov. Chris Sununu abandoned his pick for poet laureate on Friday amid growing criticism of the man's work and how he was selected." (Daily Herald/Associated Press)
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Review: "If nothing else, [Smith's] career didn’t go on long enough. Instead — as 'Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World' reminds us — he represents something more akin to potential, the poet in nascent form." (Los Angeles Times)
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Moon Landing: "A half century ago, Archibald MacLeish, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, playwright and lawyer, served as a literary interpreter of events beyond the imagination of most observers." (Harvard Law Today)
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Poets' Corner: "Rafferty says, 'When I sit down to a poem, all I want is a description of a moment that will last for 500 years.'” (Hartford Courant)
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What Sparks Poetry is a new, serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In the first series, The Poems of Others, our editors pay homage to the poems that led them to write.

This week's issue: Heather Green on Marilyn Chin’s “Horse Horse Hyphen Hyphen”

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