Report: Minneapolis is looking for its first poet laureate.
(MPR News)
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/09/21/minneapolis-begins-search-for-firstever-poet-laureate
Interview: "Poetry is everywhere and everybody has it."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/poet-and-translator-dong-li-on-the-common-tongue-of-poetry/
Interview: "...I think most, if not all, of my poems are haunted, but I’m the only one who can see the ghosts hanging around the edges."
(The Yale Review)
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https://yalereview.org/article/elisa-gonzalez-interview
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Announcement: "Poet Afaa Michael Weaver has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets."
(Spectrum News)
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https://ny1.com/nyc/staten-island/ap-top-news/2023/09/19/poet-afaa-michael-weaver-wins-100000-award-for-lifetime-achievement
Review: "A systematic longing, these poems form dialogues amid lives possible and lives lost."
(Full Stop)
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https://www.full-stop.net/2023/09/08/reviews/verenaraban/new-life-ana-bozicevic/
Conversation: "When pop culture and poetry come together, I think it creates something doubly intimate..."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/taylor-byas-on-the-wiz-pop-culture-in-poetry-and-black-womens-histories/
Interview: "The poem doesn’t have to rise from the couch with its self-esteem and integrity intact."
(Mentor & Muse)
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https://mentorandmuse.net/alina-stefanescu/
Profile: "When Salt Lake City native Gabriella Miranda was in third grade, she was given an assignment to perform a recitation of a poem."
(KUER)
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https://www.kuer.org/arts-culture-entertainment/2023-09-14/poetry-helped-her-feel-like-a-regular-kid-now-this-utahn-is-a-national-student-poet
Review: "...Allen-Paisant carefully, passionately traces a life story of absence, romance, identity, incongruity, and, ultimately, self-acknowledgment..."
(World Literature Today)
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https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2023/september/self-portrait-othello-jason-allen-paisant
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