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Review: "One of the searing ironies of Poe’s life was that during this rise to fame, as he developed an ideal of the quasi-omniscient author in total control of the creative process, his life was falling apart...."
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2021/0803/Edgar-Allan-Poe-exposed-scientific-hoaxes-and-invented-his-own

Announcement: "The Newberry Library and The Pattis Family Foundation are pleased to announce a new annual book award [of $25,000] for published works that transform public understanding of Chicago, its history, and its people."
(Yahoo!)
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/announcing-chicago-book-prize-newberry-135500332.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD3zGRDzZw_KruS2tRaViE_mzXLvrpBPlc1IOqws_AoO1oywVoQ4LKXhit8ahLjxOaekTT00_agYO82fuYxRMSy44h1LvJFTuwadh-cpfTOy3xnooY1lNkumh8ELix-IoSfX_eOXX4Pq0O8Wu_g7gqJnBVc3Z_zs_u1_8iFB8KUY

Profile: "Akbar is exquisitely sensitive to how language can function as both presence and absence. In his most recent collection, 'Pilgrim Bell' (Graywolf), words assume physical, palpable form...."
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/kaveh-akbar-finds-meaning-in-misunderstanding

Interview: "Most poets do not write to be inaccessible. Do any? It surprises me to hear my work described as such because of course, being the one who wrote it, I can access it."
—Karen Solie
(LA Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-presence-of-another-mind-a-conversation-with-karen-solie/

Interview: "Honestly, every book we publish is a risk. As a small, for-profit press the investment of time and money into each title is significant—which is why we take great care in selecting work that we feel passionately about."
(Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/interview-with-an-indie-press-black-ocean/

Interview: "[W]hen it comes to literature, I have published more since becoming president of the republic than I did before. This may mean that the time we measure so precisely is not the same as writing time."
(Words Without Borders)
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https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/the-only-instrument-of-irreversible-radical-change-a-conversation-with-the

Report: Li Huizhi, an outspoken poet and current affairs commentator from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong died on July 23 in a hospital in Huizhou city. He was 62.
(Radio Free Asia)
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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/suicide-07232021142253.html

Announcement: Joanna Lilley's collection 'Endlings' is the winner of the Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award.
(CBC)
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/joanna-lilley-endlings-kern-book-award-1.6119385

Interview: "I'm always trying to discover, perhaps unconsciously at first, the constraints I’m creating for that poem, and then revision is where I can feel the adjacent possible in action."
—Anna Leahy
(Kenyon Review)
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https://kenyonreview.org/2021/07/poetry-today-anna-leahy-and-caki-wilkinson/

Column: "[Come In] has been interpreted in many ways: as a statement on free will, a metaphor for the darkness of the mind.... But the poet Joseph Brodsky’s analysis seems closest to Frost’s explanations of his own work."
(The Atlantic)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/07/poem-robert-frost-come/619478/