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Essay: Thomas Travisano explores how Key West impacted Elizabeth Bishop's life and work. From his new biography, LOVE UNKNOWN. (Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/elizabeth-bishop-in-key-west-island-of-her-dreams/

Column: "I was struck, as I was with Sissman’s first and second books, by the ways in which a serious diagnosis seems to have shaped [Martin's] later poems, strengthening and deepening them."
—Lisa Russ Spaar (LA Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/second-acts-a-second-look-at-second-books-of-poetry-l-e-sissman-and-lynn-martin/

Announcement: "Spain’s government announced Thursday that Catalan poet Joan Margarit won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor." (Associated Press)
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https://apnews.com/31ac184e67964fe99e429559fe25bfc6

History: "More than 150 years ago, Charles Baudelaire scrawled an extra verse of his erotic poem 'The Jewels' into a copy of his landmark collection Les Fleurs du Mal...[A]head of its auction next week, the lines have been revealed." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/14/baudelaires-erotic-poem-revealed-the-jewels-les-fleurs-du-mal

Interview: "Here’s a truism: There were no women on stage in Shakespeare’s time. And now: Here’s a twist. There were plenty of women on stage in Shakespeare’s time, you just haven’t been looking in the right place." (Shakespeare Unlimited)
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https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/women-performers

Announcement: Elizabeth Bishop's former house will become the headquarters for Key West Literary Seminar. (The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/books/elizabeth-bishop-home-key-west.html

Interview: Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE, which uses fragments of borrowed text and a variety of received forms to render the many violences of war, language, and power. (The Rumpus)
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https://therumpus.net/2019/11/the-rumpus-interview-with-linda-bierds/

Essay: "The question, even now, is whether this country is ready for Whitman, open to his 'way of being' when we need it most."
—Martín Espada (Poetry Magazine)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/151134/filthy-presidentiad-walt-whitman-in-the-age-of-trump

Essay: "David Jones was a self-taught modernist with an allegiance to medieval romance and Celtic art, a Londoner who was out of place in London, a Welshman who didn’t speak Welsh."
—Paul Keegan (London Review of Books)
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n21/paul-keegan/mulishness

Column: Carol Rumens discusses Emily Berry's poem, 'Drunken Bellarmine.'

"The poem, like much of the collection, logs the vertiginous and rocky inner voyage of a speaker in extremis after the loss of their mother." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/nov/11/poem-of-the-week-drunken-bellarmine-by-emily-berry

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