Report: "We want to bring the same thoughtfulness of design that’s found in the poetry room’s architecture — an architecture intended for listening — into the digital space."
(The Harvard Gazette)
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Where sights and sounds of modern poetry are — Harvard Gazette
Woodberry Poetry Room embarks on online preservation project
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Report: "Half a century after his death, 70 previously unpublished poems are to be made available in ... The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien ... published by HarperCollins next month, featuring more than 195 of his poems."
(Guardian)
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Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published
Long-lost verse from the Lord of the Rings author will reach bookshops 50 years after his death
www.theguardian.com
Report: "It's about hearing people and hearing sounds around you while you are listening to words."
(WGRZ)
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'Poetry is alive' | The first poetry periscope in North America makes stop in Buffalo
A new public art installation at the Nichols School allows people to listen to poetry and music outdoors and for free.
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Conversation: "The linear narrative doesn’t apply to my life, and it took me a while to accept that. Relapse occupies this special place in the book."
(Rumpus)
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Narco-poetics and the Voice of Recovery: A Conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma - The Rumpus
Hope stems in the imagination, in our capacity to re-imagine how life on this finite planet could coexist with n...
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Obituary: "Her default setting was joy... she was the patron saint of lost children of all persuasions. Our favorite nickname for her was 'Mother of the Masses.'"
(NYT)
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Hettie Jones, Poet and Author Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 90
She and her husband, LeRoi Jones, published works by their literary friends. After he left her and became Amiri Baraka, she found her own voice.
www.nytimes.com
Interview: "So I looked at what was the negative force in the poems and leaned into that negativity so I could clock it, control it, play with it, balance it out, and not submit to it all the same."
(Electric Lit)
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Danez Smith Sculpts Pessimism Into Hope - Electric Literature
Through imaginative, daring poetic form, "Bluff" envisions a brighter future, embracing the personal but centering the communal
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Essay: "And yet, in a separate letter to Sue, Dickinson claimed to be imagining a future well beyond their earthly years."
(The New Yorker)
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When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In
The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?
www.newyorker.com
Conversation: "Poetry is written in whatever circumstances you find yourself in, and when today’s poet is faced with the same circumstances, a new poem will be written that is wholly different from the poems written before."
(Asymptote)
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Having Become the Sky’s Tongue: Leeladhar Jagoori on Nature Poetry in Hindi Literature - Asymptote...
I consider a poet’s job to consist of three things: writing about the society, the time, and the country.
www.asymptotejournal.com
Interview: "The pandemic, and writing this during the pandemic, was a perfect illustration of how the quantification of grief was something that we were always coming into contact with."
(Triquarterly)
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Interview With Daniel Borzutzky — TriQuarterly
“Drawing is something new to me. A couple years ago I was obsessively drawing, perhaps as a way of not writing."
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Conversation: "When thinking of Syria or Russia, my life in those countries came back to me through scratched knees and pickled vegetables—little fragments of time and space."
(Asymptote Journal)
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Scratched knees, pickled vegetables, and (un)belonging: A Conversation with Elina Katrin - Asympt...
The most honest way translation has shaped my work as a poet is through incompleteness.
www.asymptotejournal.com
In our series Language as Form, we’ve invited poets to write about poetic language as patterned language—how words as sound, voice, sentence, and song become elements of form.
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Off with your finger she says to no one, then lops off a tip, pinches its skin, and extracts with her teeth the olive pit, which she spits into another bowl. Three bowls, in all: one for what is hard, one for what is soft, one for what remains untouched.
- September 3, 2024
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