Profile: "I would find some very beautiful poems brought to me by people who didn’t understand themselves to be poets. That was one of the delightful parts of the role."
(Emerson Today)
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Emersonian Laureates Shape Boston’s Poetry Scene - Emerson Today
Boston has had three poet laureates, and all three have been Emerson alums or professors.
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Essay: "What is Hell, these days? 'New and Collected Hell', a book-length poem by Shane McCrae, is an audacious effort to stage a tour of the underworld in an almost painfully post-millennial context and vernacular."
(New Yorker)
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The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his ...
www.newyorker.com
Report: "Year six and Year seven pupils at Forres Sandle Manor took part in breaking the record for the world's largest ever poetry lesson, joining more than 43,000 pupils across the globe in contributing ideas to form a poem."
(Yahoo News)
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'It's just remarkable' - Pupils set Guinness World Record in largest poetry lesson
Year six and Year seven pupils at Forres Sandle Manor took part in the breaking of the record for the world's ...
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Interview: "I was trying to explain how the poems depict a family or community that has endured different types of oppression. I would like folks to see these figures that have been impacted in some way by societal structures."
(LARB)
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Between Pleasure and Pain | Los Angeles Review of Books
L. A. Johnson interviews Eduardo Martínez-Leyva about his debut poetry collection, “Cowboy Park.”
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Interview: "I always say that the umbrella to my writing is the idea of audacity ... how much risk it takes to make something happen, or how much boldness you need to make a certain thing happen."
(Bridge Detroit)
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Detroit poet Brittany Rogers nominated for NAACP Image Award
Earlier this month, Rogers found out "Good Dress" was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work.
www.bridgedetroit.com
Interview: "I want them to understand that despite the hate speech, hate crimes, and diatribes against both the LGBTQ and BIPOC communities, these groups are strong, resilient, and beautiful."
(Rumpus)
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The First Book: Eduardo Martínez-Leyva - The Rumpus
Without realizing it, in those years when I wasn't actively writing, I reflected, processed, grieved, and learned to be kind to myself.
therumpus.net
Essay: "When you stop to think about it — as Oppen does — this scrambled, brambled version of the metaphor makes sense. Parents ripen and fall, while a child keeps growing."
(NYT)
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I Swear This Poem Didn’t Make Me Cry
George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the pass...
www.nytimes.com
Essay: "Is this how it felt to be a progressive liberal in Weimar Germany on January 30, 1933, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor?"
(New Yorker)
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A Song on Porcelain
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past ...
www.newyorker.com
Conversation: "I like writing in different voices, and I guess that’s one of the reasons why I like being a translator; I don’t have to be me, I can be all these different people."
(Asymptote)
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Voiding the Ego: Charlotte Mandell on Translating Paul Valéry - Asymptote Blog
It doesn't interest me, what [authors] did as people—it's the texts that really matter.
www.asymptotejournal.com
Essay: "The working and thinking we do in a lifetime equips us, but even toward the end of life, we’ll never be perfectly equipped, so we might as well get comfortable with partial understanding."
(NYT)
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Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference
Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.
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In our series Language as Form, we’ve invited poets to write about poetic language as patterned language—how words as sound, voice, sentence, and song become elements of form.
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When Earth falls into Heaven, then there’ll be peace.
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