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Essay: "The difficulty for poetry to honestly and caringly hold the vastness of my—and perhaps your—love for people, the land, this life."
(Poetry Northwest)
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https://www.poetrynw.org/the-scribbles-the-rubbish-and-the-mirrored-words/

“I think a lot about the English language, and I think it exists in a state of emergency”—Natalie Diaz
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/natalie-diaz-on-the-mojave-language-and-where-english-fails-us/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20May%2020%2C%202022&utm_term=lithub_master_list

Essay: "I wonder if new metaphors — metaphors we create for ourselves — might make for a sturdy pair of snow boots."
(Guernica)
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https://www.guernicamag.com/on-metaphors-and-snow-boots/

Essay: "Rhyme turns language into ritual..."
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/the-rules-of-rhyme-daniel-levin-becker-whats-good-notes-on-rap-and-language

Profile: "Mr. Nash, a sophomore at Brown, is a journalist, activist and poet who was named Washington’s Youth Poet Laureate in 2021."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/style/a-poet-activist-at-brown-with-a-powerful-voice.html

Essay: "Where Mackey and Howe diverge from the received wisdom is in their refusal to see Gnostic ambivalence and political commitment as mutually opposed."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/on-the-gnostic-ironies-of-poets-nathaniel-mackey-and-fanny-howe/

Profile: "Hanesworth says her job right now – as a poet, community organizer and a teaching artist – is to validate people's feelings, even if they're angry, confused or grieving."
(NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099541558/buffalo-poet-laureate-calls-for-change

Essay: "A cohesive, linear ghazal, I dare say, is not a true ghazal."—Sarah Ghazal Ali
(The Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2022/05/the-pen-the-throat-the-ear-on-ghazals

Report: "The magazine had been sold by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to Paradise Media, a digital marketing company that hoped to make money on the site by increasing traffic and attracting online ads."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/books/the-believer-mcsweeneys.html

Review: "Howe’s is a corpus entrenched in unknowingness."
(The Baffler)
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-irreconcilable-fanny-howe-hood

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