Interview: "My previous book focused on extinct animals, and when I finished writing it, I realized that I needed to fall in love with the world all over again, but as it is, not as it was."
(C-Ville)
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Poet CAConrad falls in love with a new world
As a poet, CAConrad is cosmic, their work unrestrained by the page, poems existing as art objects, ecological eleg...
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Essay: "Dial-A-Poem has evolved in various iterations over six decades, expanding poetry’s reach as well as the definition of who can be considered a poet."
(MoMA)
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The Revolutionary Phone Line That Expanded Poetry’s Reach | Magazine | MoMA
Explore the six-decade evolution of John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem and its impact on poetry, activism, and everyday life.
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Announcement: "Nine of the ten poets on this year’s longlist are being honored by the National Book Awards for the first time."
(New Yorker)
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The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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Report: "In 17th-century England, where religious and political strife raged, popular culture also found an outlet in the sharp-edged verses of politically charged ballads."
(Atlas Obscura)
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Shakespeare, Kings, and Commoners All Loved These Hit English Ballads
Move aside Taylor Swift. In the 17th century, these songs were the pop music anthems of their day.
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Interview: "This book, and all of my writing, is really trying to understand memorialization as not necessarily consoling us or offering a way to connect but as a way of distancing ourselves from an event."
(Publishers Weekly)
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The Past Is Never Dead: PW Talks with Brandon Shimoda
In 'The Afterlife Is Letting Go' (City Lights, Dec.), poet Brandon Shimoda reflects on attempts to memorialize the ...
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Report: "A 600-year-old doorway that may have once led to William Shakespeare’s dressing room has been revealed in the UK’s oldest working theatre."
(BBC)
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Theatre makes 'mind boggling' Shakespeare discovery
St George's Guildhall believes a 600-year-old doorway could have led to Shakespeare's dressing room.
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Essay: "I do believe ... that poetry can be a window into another consciousness, a way to enter a feeling suspended as in amber—to see the unknown as if it were reflected in your own eye."
(Texas Observer)
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Poetry Bridges the Gulf Between Texas and Palestine
What do we owe to language in times of unimaginable violence? Palestinian-Texan verse helps show us the way.
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Profile: "After teaching the [Madwomen in the Attic writing workshop] for years, I don’t know any women who haven’t suffered some kind of abuse or violence. I don’t think it's talked about enough or written about enough."
(Pittsburgh City Paper)
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How poet Jan Beatty drew from WAMO and "madwomen" for her latest poetry anthology
Dragstripping contains poems Beatty has written over the last few years along with work that the Pittsburgh poet has been working on for decades.
www.pghcitypaper.com
Report: "Many of Stanford’s creative writing lecturers will be phased out over the next two years..."
(The Stanford Daily)
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Stanford to ‘cycle out’ creative writing lecturers
The Creative Writing Program faces an uncertain future as Jones Lecturers were informed in a Zoom meeting that the...
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Profile: "If people come away feeling like they are paying more attention ... that would be my dream.”
(NPCA)
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Poetry in Place
With a series of poetic park installations and a new anthology, the U.S. poet laureate hopes to remind visitors ...
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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 newest series, Life in Public, we ask our editors to examine how poetry speaks to different aspects of public experience.
What does it mean to say that a poet is, as C. D. Wright has put it, “one with others”? What is poetry’s place in the public sphere today, of all times? How has life in that sphere been expressed in poems? Is all published poetry public speech? What is a private poem? What is occasional poetry? What is political poetry?
With questions such as these in mind, we asked each of our editors to select a poem written by another poet that addresses an aspect of public experience—that celebrates, historicizes, memorializes, critiques, questions, or subtly references its public element—and to write about what interests and inspires them about that poem.
We are excited to present to you the resulting sixteen meditations on the private and the public, and how the intersection of these states sometimes results in poetry.
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