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[Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist’s shop,]

Aleksandr Blok (translated from the Russian by Dimitri Obolensky)

Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist's shop, a meaningless and dim light.

from the book The Heritage of Russian Verse / Indiana University Press

Interview: "Poetry is just the thing for teetering on that verge—looking into hopelessness and saying 'nope' is what poetry’s all about."

Brenda Shaughnessy discusses her creative process, favorite authors, and more. (PEN America)
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Interview: NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with poet and video game designer Keith S. Wilson about his new collection of poetry, Fieldnotes On Ordinary Love, which explores space, race and physics. (NPR)
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Column: "Even now, four years into Yemen’s civil war, established poets and emerging young writers are exploring how the art form can unite people on different sides of the war’s many fault lines." (The Guardian)
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Review: "Ginsberg did not initially seem destined to become a world traveler....Ginsberg seemed to regard anything more than trips between New Jersey and New York with thin romanticism and fear." (Hyperallergic)
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Photos: Shirley Bradley Price LeFlore, who was active in the arts for decades and served as St. Louis’ second poet laureate, died Sunday, May 12, 2019. She was 79. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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What Sparks Poetry

The Poems of Others

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

This week's issue: Ilya Kaminsky on Aleksandr Blok’s “[Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist’s shop]”

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