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Essay: "Brief though it was, Alice Moore’s marriage to Paul Dunbar has tended to overshadow her achievements as a writer, even though she outlived him by three decades and married twice more." (Paris Review — The Daily)
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/09/28/feminize-your-canon-alice-dunbar-nelson/

Column: This week, Carol Rumens discusses Bill Manhire's poem, "Huia." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/sep/28/poem-of-the-week-huia-by-bill-manhire

Excerpt: "The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life. And unlike paintings, sculptures or passages of great music, they do not outstrip the scope of memory, but are the actual thing, incarnate." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/26/clive-james-the-poems-i-remember-are-the-milestones-marking-the-journey-of-my-life

Essay: "[Ryan] cherishes those poets who have put their emotions through 'the chillifier' or through 'cooling coils,' those whose feeling for form has detached or distanced them from the particularity of their own feelings." (NYR Daily)
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https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/09/26/kay-ryan-giddy-with-thinking/

Review: "Reading Cole and Corral side by side, you find, everywhere, poems about the periodicity of desire, its alternating flights and crashes, in both private and political spaces." —Dan Chiasson (The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/poems-that-map-the-urges-of-private-and-political-space

Awards: The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 American Poets Prizes, including Carmen Giménez Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, Geoffrey Brock, Nikky Finney, and others.
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https://poets.org/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2020-american-poets-prizes

Interview: "Structure and how one moves from poem to poem is everything to me. I guess I learned some hard lessons from the modernists, as well as from the structure of film, the adjacencies of editing or montage."
—Jorie Graham (Publishers Weekly)
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https://pwpoetry.tumblr.com/post/629912735416795136/qa-with-jorie-graham

Obituary: "Anne Stevenson, a prominent poet whose 1989 biography of an even more prominent poet, Sylvia Plath, fueled the debate over Ms. Plath’s troubled life and her marriage to the poet Ted Hughes, died on Sept. 14...."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/arts/anne-stevenson-poet-and-plath-biographer-is-dead-at-87.html

Interview: "I remember once...dropping a poem off at Bidart’s apartment. He stays up all night and sleeps during the day. Our protocol was for me to put my poem in his mailbox. He would call me late at night, having read it."
(The Yale Review)
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https://yalereview.yale.edu/dan-chiasson-poetry-reading-and-darkness-endless-summer

Announcement: Here are the five winners of the 2020 National Poetry Series Competition: W.J. Herbert, Trevor Ketner, Teresa K. Miller, Amanda Moore, and Devon Walker-Figueroa. (NPS)
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https://nationalpoetryseries.org/announcing-the-2020-national-poetry-series-competition-winners/