Interview: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
"As someone who has taught nature writing for decades, I can tell you when I set my students to a writing task, I ask them (in so many words) to start with and from a place of love"
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Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Judge of the 2025 Nature Poetry Prize - Palette Poetry
"Today here in March, a new study revealed we’ve lost 22% of the butterflies on this planet. I mean, we are ...
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Essay: "Bugs are notoriously good analogues for human antics, ethics, and morality."
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In Praise of Poetry About Bugs
Poetry and bugs should be thought of more often together. My friend, the poet Sara Nicholson, once told me she ...
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Interview: Steven Espada Dawson
"When you’re someone caught between two places it can be hard to know whether that carrying is a life vest or a haunting."
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Late to the Search Party: An Interview with Steven Espada Dawson
Steven Espada Dawson is from East Los Angeles and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he serves as poet laureate. ...
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Conversation: Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali.
The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.
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BOMB Magazine | Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali
The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.
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Profile: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize.
Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.
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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize
Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.
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Interview: "The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum"
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The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum - Electric Literature
Rob Macaisa Colgate’s formally inventive collection creates a world of care and intimacy
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Essay: Notes with Alice Notley.
"Something begins in the presence of this tree ravished by wind as the mind seeks Alice Notley."
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Essay: The Future Will be Translated: A Manifesto in Three Lies. Chloe Garcia Roberts on the Reasons for Hope in the Field of Translation.
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The Future Will be Translated: A Manifesto in Three Lies
In my early twenties, I worked one summer as domestic help in a private residence for rich male university stude...
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Announcement: CLMP Announces the 2025 Firecracker Awards Finalists
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CLMP Announces the 2025 Firecracker Awards Finalists - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
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