Interview: "...my relationship to writing only improved when I stopped looking up and elsewhere and started sharing work with the friends around me."
(Financial Times)
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Poet Will Harris: ‘The trait I find most irritating in others? An excessive love of fascism’
The writer on mentors, his Tubby Custard obsession and free will
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Report: "...the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years."
(LitHub)
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Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.
Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 y...
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Essay: "How do you see the person you’ve lived with for decades as if for the first time? How do you make the 10,000th kiss romantic and new?"
(Oprah Daily)
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How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad Rhymes)
The poet and author of Skeletons shares her tips for a writing a love poem—as well as some surprises.
www.oprahdaily.com
Interview: "If we hold too tightly to the reigns of logic or control, we diminish the possibilities for mystery..."—Maya C. Popa
(BOMB)
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BOMB Magazine | Maya C. Popa Interviewed
The poet on writing about and welcoming the modulations of joy, grief, transcendence, and reckoning.
bombmagazine.org
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Nikola will hold a “Fireside Chat” and Q&A session for Stockholders with CEO Michael Lohscheller on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT) to address questions related to the upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Learn more here:
Profile: “My mother was a tether to my heritage that I lost growing up.”
(The Harvard Gazette)
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Graduate’s poetry taps into grief, Iranian roots
Darius Atefat-Peckham ’23 honors his mother's legacy through his own work and bringing her unfinished poetry to light.
news.harvard.edu
Interview: "I began as a fiction writer... but I fell in love with poetry and its avenues of bewilderment."—Jane Wong
(PEN America)
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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jane Wong
In this PEN Ten interview, we talk with Jane Wong about the connections between poetry and memoir and community as creative fertilizer.
pen.org
Essay: "If we are going to outsource the complexity of human aliveness, then what is the point of being alive, you know?"
(The Hindu)
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Will writers and publishers accept the ChatGPT poet?
Faced with AI-generated poetry written by ChatGPT, poets Tishani Doshi and Meena Kandasamy share the humanity involved in their process.
www.thehindu.com
Profile: "Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach was just 6 years old when she came to the U.S. in 1993 with her family, Jewish refugees from Dnipro, Ukraine."
(501 Life Mag)
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Author of the Month: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
By Susan Peterson Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach was just 6 years old when she came to the U.S. in 1993 with her f...
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