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Essay: "I’m drawn to the seriousness and relentlessness of Bidart’s work—the sense that he is using the best tools he has, and inventing new tools, to ask the most important and difficult questions he can...."—Garth Greenwell (The Atlantic)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2020/01/by-heart-garth-greenwell-frank-bidart/604933/

Review: "...Shakespeare’s complete works are themselves a kind of anthology of Renaissance nature writing. The archetypal humanist, Shakespeare’s plays celebrate and embody a radical anthropocentrism." —Daniel Swift (LA Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-shakespeare-in-the-anthropocene/

Interview: "North American poets are reading more translations than ever, and there are more U.S. poets who are translating. I think the trajectories of our major writers lead across the borders."—Forrest Gander (Asymptote)
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https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-forrest-gander/

Interview: "I think the appointment [as Poet Laureate] is certainly at a crucial time in this country, in the world, especially dealing with shifting political realities everywhere."—Joy Harjo (The Washington Post)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/everyone-wants-a-place-where-they-feel-safe-says-joy-harjo-the-first-native-american-us-poet-laureate/2020/01/10/6e0f474e-0281-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

Column: "Marilyn Hacker’s poem recognises the [ghazal's] symbolic potential, unlocking dialogue and argument from the paired lines of each stanza."—Carol Rumens (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/13/poem-of-the-week-ghazal-myself-by-marilyn-hacker

Announcement: Roger Robinson, the British-Trinidadian dub poet, has won the prestigious TS Eliot prize on his first nomination for his collection A PORTABLE PARADISE. (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/13/roger-robinson-dub-poet-ts-eliot-prize

Essay: "There are more resonances between programming and poetry than you might think.... Laid out on a page, every program uses indentations, stanzas, and a distinctive visual hierarchy to convey meaning." —Dan Rockmore
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-mechanical-muse

Review: "I’d like to invent...new adjectives to describe the startling originality and ambition of Smith’s work. I’d like to unwrap some brand-new words, oddly pronged words, to convey their wary intelligence and open heart." (The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/review-homie-danez-smith.html

Review: "Some may find that Hass has grown too comfy in his effusive style and his old lefty politics, but to me it all sounds like mastery...." —Craig Morgan Teicher
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/review/robert-hass-summer-snow-new-poems.html

Column: Carol Rumens discusses Robert Browning's "House" in this edition of "Poem of the Week." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/jan/06/poem-of-the-week-house-by-robert-browning

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