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Visitation

in the dream where I don't know she is dead, she comes to me and I talk to her about none of the things I want to

Kelly Hoffer

from the book Undershore / Lightscatter Press

Essay: "For me, poetry is the thinnest barrier between abstraction and emotion. Queerness, too, has allowed the world to let me in: the unbridled joy of a people who have been shunned by the rest of society is like nothing else."
(autostraddle)
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Without Poetry or Queerness, I Do Not Exist

When I write, when I kiss my girlfriend, when I do poppers at the club, all of these things are me announcing my place in the family of things.

www.autostraddle.com

Essay: "Zhang and her colleagues turned to ancient poems because official records rarely mentioned these animals."
(Scientific American)
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Scientists Use Ancient Chinese Poetry to Study Endangered Yangtze Porpoise

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing informati...

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Announcement: "Atwood with be in conversation with Carolyn Forsché at the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings on June 4, 2025."
(Lit Hub)
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Margaret Atwood has won the Griffin Poetry Prize’s 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award.

Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced Margaret Atwood as the winner of their 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award, wh...

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Announcement: Marie Howe wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
(Pulitzer)
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2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists

2024 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists

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Profile: "Kearney points out, Lamar’s signifying—the clever use of indirect language and imagery to convey complex ideas—is one of the hallmarks of Black art and is integral to understanding both Lamar’s performance and Kearney’s own poetry."
(PW)
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Double Dreaming, Double Imagining: A Profile of Douglas Kearney

In the poetry collection I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, Douglas Kearney shatters traditional expectations by...

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Profile: "And just before Brooks took her final breath, her daughter placed a pen in her hand."
(Chicago Tribune)
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Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote of life’s also-rans

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually be...

www.chicagotribune.com

Profile: "There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of self-discovery."
(Nobel Prize)
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https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/fighting-oppression-with-poetry/

Conversation: "And isn’t that what poetry writing is like? Navigating a new floor plan without any lights? Or building the house itself as you wander through bare boards and beams?"
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Derek Mong

Derek Mong writes a poetry that’s part of a growing canon of fatherhood verse. Work made in the light of lit...

www.mcsweeneys.net

Profile: "You use the past. You do not worship it—you consult it. And one of the obligations to the poetry…you are obliged not just to keep it alive, but to change it and contribute to it and adapt it and keep it alive by making it new."
(BU)
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Robert Pinsky, America’s Ambassador for Poetry, Retiring from Teaching after 36 Years at BU, More...

University will honor the award-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate Thursday, when he’ll do a public reading

www.bu.edu

Announcement: "Poets & Writers announced Monday that Cyrus Cassells is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize."
(WTOP)
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Poet Cyrus Cassells receives $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize for ‘exceptional talent’ - WTOP News

NEW YORK (AP) — An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of H...

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Language as Form

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This week's issue: Chloe Garcia Roberts on “Temporal Saturation”

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Water Sons

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