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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...

wtop.com

Essay: "If we want to keep these communities dynamic, we should work hard to keep them weird ... That reputation sometimes stems not from bacchanalian excess, but rather from a refusal to accept the status quo."
(Public Books)
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“Poetry City”: Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth.

www.publicbooks.org

Announcement: "The Griffin Poetry Prize—the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry in English—announced is 2025 shortlist."
(Lit Hub)
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Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in ...

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Profile: "I liked the compression and musicality of poetry ... I knew no other form of writing that was so thrilling and compelling."
(New Mexico Magazine)
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Arthur Sze's Sensory Poems and Santa Fe Legacy

As poet Arthur Sze publishes two new books this month, a tide of literary lifetime achievement awards continues to...

www.newmexicomagazine.org

Essay: "Looking back, I see the medieval sage and mystic’s verses as a luminous antidote to the bewildering materialism of American life."
(Lit Hub )
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A Mystic, a Poet, an Old Friend: Haleh Liza Gafori on the Enduring Power of Rumi

I first heard the poetry of Molana Rumi when I was a child staring out at the Hudson River from an eighth-fl...

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Essay: "If I were to pick only one poet from Gaza to be translated and published in the English-speaking world, this is who it would be. Nasser Rabah is my favorite living poet in Palestine."
(Lit Hub)
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Mosab Abu Toha on the Poetry of Nasser Rabah

In 2020, I had the idea of starting a literary magazine featuring writers from the Gaza Strip with the goal of...

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Profile: "For Mayakovsky, 'It was a revolution. It was a poem. The poems and the revolution somehow came together in my head.'"
(Jacobin)
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How War Changed Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young fut...

jacobin.com

Announcement: "Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture today announced that Ghanaian American poet, editor, and educator Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah will serve as Boston’s next Poet Laureate."
(City of Boston)
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Mayor Wu Announces Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah as Boston’s Next Poet Laureate

Photo by Carlie Febo

www.boston.gov

Interview: "Whatever I say in this moment, if somebody comes back to look at it a hundred years from now, they will at least know that this Black man was standing here saying something in the world."
(PBS RI)
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Meet Kwame Dawes, Brown University professor and new poet laureate of Jamaica - TPR: The Public's...

Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor and musician whose work is shaped by a journey that started in Ghana, where he ...

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