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Report: "Seven national parks will host special events this year with Ada Limón, the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry."
(National Parks Traveler)
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https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/03/us-poet-laureate-ada-limon-visit-national-parks-poetry-project
Conversation: "What is a life without memory? And what is memory if not repetition."
(The New Inquiry)
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https://thenewinquiry.com/when-it-takes-root-in-the-heart-a-conversation-with-fady-joudah/
Conversation: "I think that’s what I want from poems: not just to preserve what was there to begin with, but to supply what is missing."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/armen-davoudian-on-immigration-enjambments-and-how-poems-can-make-loss-tangible/
Interview: "Only once I gave up the urge to stuff individual pieces into a document as an archive of the ego could I write the book."
(P&W)
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https://www.pw.org/content/ten_questions_for_cindy_juyoung_ok
Retrospective: "It’s hard to believe Lyn is dead, because her mind, her spirit, if you will, was always so full of life."
(Paris Review)
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/08/remembering-lyn-hejinian-1941-2024/
Report: "Fitzcarraldo Editions has hired Rachael Allen to launch a poetry list..."
(The Bookseller)
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https://www.thebookseller.com/news/fitzcarraldo-editions-hires-rachael-allen-to-launch-new-poetry-list-featuring-rebecca-tamas-and-diane-seuss
Essay: "Later I would see that Simic practiced this philosophy of and in all his poems, a metaphysics of radical inclusion: brutality and death were everywhere in life, and they were ordinary."
(Yale Review)
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https://yalereview.org/article/dana-levin-charles-simic
Report: "The U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón, is launching her intended signature project in April, which is National Poetry Month."
(AP)
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https://apnews.com/article/ada-limon-poet-laureate-parks-edb85b12ba44039696a75001e4daea60
Conversation: "I do think writing my own poems helps my ear for translation, but translation helps my poems too..."
(Asymptote)
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https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/02/28/an-unexpected-lurch-of-the-heart-an-interview-with-a-e-stallings/
Report: "A new workshop has been teaching people how to recycle recipe books and food reviews into poetry."
(BBC)
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-68461879
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