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Elegy (Deserted)

Eryn Green

We live on the edge of A raft through dejection A joy almost too great To speak...

from the journal Conduit

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/

Interview: "I think the appointment [as Poet Laureate] is certainly at a crucial time in this country, in the world, especially dealing with shifting political realities everywhere."—Joy Harjo (The Washington Post)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/everyone-wants-a-place-where-they-feel-safe-says-joy-harjo-the-first-native-american-us-poet-laureate/2020/01/10/6e0f474e-0281-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

Column: "Marilyn Hacker’s poem recognises the [ghazal's] symbolic potential, unlocking dialogue and argument from the paired lines of each stanza."—Carol Rumens (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/13/poem-of-the-week-ghazal-myself-by-marilyn-hacker

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The Poems of Others II

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In the newest series, The Poems of Others II, twenty-four poets pay homage to the poems that led them to write.

This week's issue: Shara Lessley on Stanley Plumly’s “Dutch Elm”

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January 16, 2020

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Avraham Chalfi (translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari)

And the body hurts itself the hurt Of the entire world. Let rain fall. Like a rainy autumn That's awkward as a beast.

January 15, 2020

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Gemma Gorga (translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin)

I ponder it now, while holding this new book in my hands, the words still slick like the feathers of a newly hatched bird.

January 14, 2020

Funeral in Paris

Aria Aber

Each natural passing articulates the unnatural: every aunt has a son who fell, or a daughter who hid in rubble for two years, until that knock of officers holding a bin bag filled with a dress and bones.

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