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Nomenclature for the Time Being (excerpt)

Dionne Brand

to acquire the basic level of existence all can be lost in that particular resolve...

from the book Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems / Duke University Press

Interview: "A voice is singular, but it is also anonymous and plural. It is promiscuous."
(BOMB)
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BOMB Magazine | Between Voice and Image: Lynn Xu Interviewed

Transforming a museum into a book.

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Interview: "Poetry, like prayer, is speaking and listening at the same time."—Gabrielle Bates
(Palette Poetry)
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Legacy Suite #8 - Palette Poetry

The Legacy Suite is a three-part interview series in which poets delve into the tumultuous journey of publishing a...

www.palettepoetry.com

Announcement: "Poet Kim Hye-soon has been named an 'International Writer' by the Royal Society of Literature..."
(The Korea Herald)
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Poet Kim Hye-soon recognized as 'International Writer' by Royal Literary Society of England

Poet Kim Hye-soon has been named an “International Writer” by the Royal Society of Literature, based in ...

www.koreaherald.com

Report: "From the start, Astra Magazine was unusual."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/books/astra-magazine.html

Interview: "Herrick said the diversity in California makes it an ideal place for poetry."
(LARB)
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What does a poet laureate get paid for? We asked Lee Herrick — California's next one

Fresno's Lee Herrick is set to become California's 10th poet laureate. I asked him about his goals and what make...

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Profile: "My back issues of APR don’t fit in a box... They rest in a stack; they take up room. Poetry should take up room."
(LitHub)
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Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

Tabloid-sized. Big on the table. A blanket of a journal. The American Poetry Review debuted 50 years ago, with a...

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Essay: "This music, this way of hymning directly to God... it’s the bedrock upon which my understanding of poetry has been built."—Kaveh Akbar
(Harvard Divinity Bulletin)
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https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/what-can-ancient-spiritual-poetry-teach-us-about-living/

Conversation: "...none of us considered ourselves literary translators."
(Asymptote)
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A Conversation on Kurdish Translation with Farangis Ghaderi - Asymptote Blog

Translation is a commitment—a way of illustrating my commitment to making Kurdish literature known.

www.asymptotejournal.com

How small must one be
to be hidden?

—Marianne Boruch
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"The Lyrebird, Hidden. His Dance, Hidden. His Wish" by Marianne Boruch

from New England Review

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Obituary: "Poet, artist, publisher, and scholar Bernadette Mayer died November 22 at the age of seventy-seven at her home in East Nassau, New York."
(Artforum)
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Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022)

Poet, artist, publisher, and scholar Bernadette Mayer died November 22 at the age of seventy-seven at her home in ...

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What Sparks Poetry

Translation

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.

In our series focused on Translation, we invite poet-translators to share seminal experiences in their practices, bringing poems from one language into another. How does the work of translating feel essential to the writing of one’s own poetry? Our contributors reflect on inspiring moments as intricate as a grammatical quirk and as wide-ranging as the history or politics of another place.

This week's issue: Jennifer Kronovet on Celia Dropkin’s “A Fear Growing in My Heart”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

December 6, 2022

When They Built the House,

Michael Bazzett

How exactly did we get here? they muttered. All our lives we opened for others, yet now it seems life’s just begun—

December 5, 2022

A Fear Growing in My Heart

Celia Dropkin (translated from the Yiddish by Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, & Samuel Solomon)

A fear was growing in my heart: I smelled the putrid odor of my grave around me.

December 4, 2022

The Future!

Brooke Ellsworth

What if for a moment we stirred that future

December 3, 2022

Golden Hour

Jennifer Polson Peterson

sad every afternoon of my life. Outside a child runs in the grass. Soon I will appear and call her to me.

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