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Report: "[Limón's] poem, to be released in the coming months, will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. It will travel 1.8 billion miles..."
(LOC Newsroom)
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A Voice Among the Stars: Poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Will Ride to Europa on NASA Spacecraft

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, who is known for work that explores the human connection to the natural world, is...

newsroom.loc.gov

Report: "Even the bathroom is devoted to literature, with black-and-white photographs of writers covering the ceiling and available wall space."
(Curbed)
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A Writer’s Book-Stuffed Greenwich Village Studio

A photo of Rimbaud looks down from the bathroom ceiling.

www.curbed.com

Review: "...the poet, fiction writer, and translator John Keene has gradually and unassumingly established himself as one of the preeminent writers of experimental literature in English."
(Chicago Review)
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On John Keene’s Punks

By Peter Myers

www.chicagoreview.org

Announcement: Heather Green has been named one of the winners of the inaugural Albertine Translation Prize.
(LitHub)
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Here are the winners of the first Albertine Translation Prize.

At a ceremony in New York on Thursday, Villa Albertine announced the winners of the first Albertine Translation Pr...

lithub.com

Report: "...Mistral is being reclaimed by a new generation of feminist and L.G.B.T. activists as an anti-establishment icon..."
(NYT)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/books/poetry-gabriela-mistral.html

Interview: "This is a coming-of-age book in a lot of ways, as many first books are."—Gabrielle Bates
(Adroit)
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Issue Forty-Four: A Conversation with Gabrielle Bates

Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023). A Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry ...

theadroitjournal.org

Profile: The San Diego Union-Tribune talks with new San Diego poet laureate Jason Magabo Perez.
(San Diego Union-Tribune)
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San Diego has a new poet laureate. But he sees you as the voice of the city.

Jason Magabo Perez's work as a writer and teacher has prepared him for what he wants to accomplish in the role...

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

Review: "...it’s hard to believe that Judas Goat is Gabrielle Bates’s debut collection."
(Chicago Review of Books)
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The Price of Survival in “Judas Goat”

Our review of Gabrielle Bates’ debut collection, “Judas Goat”

chireviewofbooks.com

Interview: "I see part of my job as an (involuntary) immigrant and settler as working to understand the mechanisms of colonialism..."
(SER)
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An Interview with Sun Yung Shin

An Interview with Sun Yung Shin Brett Hanley 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea, and was rai...

www.southeastreview.org

Profile: "But Joseph is a poet at his core... and arguably it is through his poetry that he takes on his toughest subjects..."
(The Guardian)
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TS Eliot prize winner Anthony Joseph: how poetry helped me love my absent father

The writer on switching from rock to poetry and how Sonnets for Albert explores his relationship with a missing ...

www.theguardian.com

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