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Dream State (As Strained Pineapple)

Analicia Sotelo

the suppression of language through the renaming of art and archival objects, the suppression of language through talks of money and fine new establishments at the peak of popularity.

from the journal New England Review

Review: "Xie’s lines have an unmooring effect: She slyly dissects images and concepts, rearranging the landmarks of the mind."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/books/jenny-xie-the-rupture-tense-poetry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Essay: "The French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape of Europe, but the young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind that transformed our world forever."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/how-a-group-of-young-writers-and-poets-revolutionized-18th-century-literature/

Interview: "As I was thinking about writing these poems, I was thinking about Seattle and all its lushness."—Luther Hughes
(The Seattle Times)
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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-poet-luther-hughes-on-a-shiver-in-the-leaves-his-debut-collection/

Announcement: "The Poetry Foundation announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows..."
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/158671/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly-dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows

Essay: "Berrigan’s poems are paced like the films of the New Wave, and they’re at least as funny."—Jordan Davis
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158608/what-do-i-say-next-fast

Announcement: "Marilyn Nelson has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets..."
(AP)
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https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-new-york-adrienne-rich-kevin-young-ecd0db8fa1460582721c47d434dba859

Review: "...Midwood’s poems form their own kind of travelogue, one written from the countries of aging, of motherhood, of inwardness..."
(The Nation)
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jana-prikryl-midwood/

Essay: "Shelley belonged to a new wave of radicals."
(Jacobin)
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https://jacobin.com/2022/09/percy-bysshe-shelley-poetry-politics-revolution

Announcement: The longlist for the 2022 National Book Award in poetry has been announced.
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2022-national-book-awards-longlist-poetry

Conversation: "I love the poets for whom the world is a kind of grab bag of poetry."—Adrian Matejka
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/adrian-matejka

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 series focused on Translation, we invite poet-translators to share seminal experiences in their practices, bringing poems from one language into another. How does the work of translating 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 as the history or politics of another place.

This week's issue: Robin Myers on Javier Peñalosa M.’s “The Crane”

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September 26, 2022

The Crane

Javier Peñalosa M. (translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers)

I stared, afraid to touch: I’d never known about the drawing-out of death, this trembling beyond pain.

September 25, 2022

Reversal

Danielle Cadena Deulen

Recall the feel of sap, the rules of hide-and-seek, the bitter milk of dandelion dared to the tongue.

September 24, 2022

The well

Lasse Söderberg (translated from the Swedish by Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché)

He who wants to remember, and is full of darkness himself, must stand by the brim of himself as by a well...

September 23, 2022

Black Anguish

Harmony Holiday

we kept laughing uncontrollably now and the rain sounds steal drums as us forgetting to act stolen

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