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[Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm]

Jim Harrison

Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm, the snow on the mountains absorbing the moon. We have to get there before the music begins, scattered, elliptical, needing to be drawn together and sung.

from the book Collected Ghazals / Copper Canyon Press

Announcement: "New England Review (@NERweb) has announced that Jennifer Chang will join its staff as poetry editor. She will begin her new position on March 1." (Middlebury College)
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http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/people/node/655699

Announcement: "Bhanu Kapil has won the most valuable award in British poetry, the TS Eliot prize, for her 'radical and arresting' collection How to Wash a Heart."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/24/bhanu-kapil-wins-ts-eliot-prize-for-poetry-how-to-wash-a-heart

Appreciation: "His poetry is often forgotten or overshadowed in the Joycean canon by the later achievements of the prose works. His first published book, however, was the 1907 collection of poems, Chamber Music." (The Irish Times)
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https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-poet-an-irishman-s-diary-on-james-joyce-1.4466603

Review: "UNDERWORLD LIT is a book-length poem with a more than passing resemblance to the campus novel, and it may well rank as one of the masterpieces."
(Hong Kong Review of Books)
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https://hkrbooks.com/2020/12/01/underworld-lit/

Review: "Earlier in the pandemic, I took up the friendly and pleasurable challenge of reading in tandem two recently published translations of poems by the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli..." (LA Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/second-acts-two-translations-of-giovanni-pascoli/

What Sparks Poetry

Translation

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

In our current series, What Translation Sparks, we’ve asked a group of poet-translators to share a seminal experience in translation. How does the work of translating poetry feel essential to the writing of one’s own poetry? Our contributors reflect on inspiring moments as intricate as a grammatical quirk and as wide-ranging the history or politics of another place.

This week's issue: Margaret Noodin on “Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

January 27, 2021

Icarus

Robert Cording

After our son died, my wife found him in coincidences—sightings of hawks, mostly, at the oddest of times and places, and then in a pair of redtails that took up residence, nesting in a larch above our barn, and how their low, frequent sweeps just a few feet above us before rising over our kitchen roof made it seem as if they were looking in on us.

January 26, 2021

Sadness Isn’t The Only Muse

Derrick Austin

I can’t imagine myself reading bedtime stories to a toddler, and I’m older than my father was when he read those brightly colored books to me.

January 25, 2021

Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa/Niwii-aabiziwinge

Máirtín Ó Direáin (translated from the Irish into Ojibwe & English by Margaret Noodin)

I will find Solace A short while only Among relatives Without sorrow Without mind worry Without loneliness Without confusion In the west

January 24, 2021

[To the queer silence…]

Sarah J. Sloat

An erasure from Sarah J. Sloat's book of visual poetry, Hotel Almighty.

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