Announcement: "A treasure trove of newly discovered items belonging to William Wordsworth, one of England’s greatest poets, have been given to his Lake District home by his descendants." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/17/wordsworth-treasures-donated-to-poets-lake-district-home

"Delmore [Schwartz], in the classic tradition of the Harvard outsider poet, and like his hero Eliot, turned down his degree. He declined to take his Masters because he could or would not pay off his fines at the Widener Library." (Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/the-enigma-of-delmore-schwartz-the-luminous-poet-who-fell-from-grace/

Essay: "I’m drawn to the seriousness and relentlessness of Bidart’s work—the sense that he is using the best tools he has, and inventing new tools, to ask the most important and difficult questions he can...."—Garth Greenwell (The Atlantic)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2020/01/by-heart-garth-greenwell-frank-bidart/604933/

Review: "...Shakespeare’s complete works are themselves a kind of anthology of Renaissance nature writing. The archetypal humanist, Shakespeare’s plays celebrate and embody a radical anthropocentrism." —Daniel Swift (LA Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-shakespeare-in-the-anthropocene/

Interview: "North American poets are reading more translations than ever, and there are more U.S. poets who are translating. I think the trajectories of our major writers lead across the borders."—Forrest Gander (Asymptote)
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https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-forrest-gander/