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Essay: "It is as if translating these ancient poems returned me to a way of knowing I had not only lost, but never knew I lost. Some more essential way." —Dan Beachy-Quick (New England Review)
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http://www.nereview.com/2020/07/06/writers-notebook-why-i-translated-this/

Essay: "Wilfred Owen was a war poet because he was a poet in a war. Heaney was a poet in Belfast. How to address actuality? How to write about occupation, sectarian killings, the contagion of fear?" (The Atlantic)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/r-f-foster-on-seamus-heaney/612256/

Column: Nick Ripatrazone discusses new books from Cleopatra Mathis, Alice Oswald, Karen Solie, and Charlotte Pence. (The Millions)
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https://themillions.com/2020/07/must-read-poetry-july-2020.html

Conversation: "Culturally, [Whitman] seems to be a really central figure in the evolution of what it means to be queer, how we negotiate that, how we take pride in it." — Mark Doty (Advocate)
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https://www.advocate.com/books/2020/7/03/why-walt-whitman-americas-poet-was-queer-pioneer

Letter: "I’ve always felt great freedom in the countless territories making up the realm of Blackness. So many routes to wholeness. So many versions of joy." —Tracy K. Smith (Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/dear-black-america-a-letter-from-tracy-k-smith/

Essay: "'Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare,' wrote Edna St. Vincent Millay, as if she understood my daily algebraic and geometric meditations." (Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/why-do-some-mathematicians-think-theyre-poets/

Profile: "If the language we hear on television broadcasts no longer stirs us to do anything more than tweet our dismay, poetry can express something new, and this can energise us to take action." —Threa Almontaser
(Al Jazeera)
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https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/poet-threa-almontaser-love-letter-yemen-200421111202563.html

Column: "Kamo no Chomei was a 12th-century Japanese poet and musician.... Even monastic life was too gregarious for him and around his 60th birthday Chomei went to live alone in a tiny hut in the woods." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/28/kamo-no-chomei-japanese-poet-pioneer-of-lockdown-travel

Column: "[P]oets discuss 2019-2020 poetry collections that they love, recommend and above all, celebrate, in ways that reach beyond so much social distancing required of us right now." (Kenyon Review)
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https://kenyonreview.org/2020/06/poets-on-poets-celebrating-new-collections-part-5/

Essay: "If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they want monuments, well, then, my body is a monument. My skin is a monument." — Caroline Randall Williams
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html

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