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Conversation: "...in the last two or three years I’ve turned to poetry, because I’ve been sadder."
(The Adroit Journal)
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https://theadroitjournal.org/2023/09/25/a-conversation-with-cleo-qian/

Essay: "Saskia Hamilton, who died of cancer this June at 56, was an honorary, late-adopted member of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell’s circle."
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/161209/ones-own-evidence

Interview: "Like many writers, I process the world most deeply through words. For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process."
(Poets & Writers)
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https://www.pw.org/content/ten_questions_for_cintia_santana

Conversation: "I guess at some point I came to think of myself as curating or braiding little suites or series, all with distinct attitudes toward the line and its ends..."
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ben-lerner

Report: "The 30-item collection includes newspapers and books from her lifetime that contain poems by Wheatley and references to her, as well as material documenting her literary afterlife."
(New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/arts/phillis-wheatley-smithsonian.html

Report: "After gaining federal permission, the family of a famed poet/author plans to trek to a remote corner of South Dakota in October to retrieve a century-old monument..."
(Nebraska Examiner)
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https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/09/25/family-of-famed-poet-plans-to-breach-century-old-monument-to-unlock-mystery-inside/

Review: "The poems in Removal Acts possess a caustic lyricism..."
(The Adroit Journal)
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https://theadroitjournal.org/2023/09/20/a-review-of-erin-marie-lynchs-removal-acts/

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Interview: "I think that for me, it always started with the body, which is where I begin as a dancer and a woman."
(Her)
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https://www.hercircle.in/engage/get-inspired/achievers/poetry-can-leap-across-time-with-just-a-line-tishani-doshi-5849.html

Report: Minneapolis is looking for its first poet laureate.
(MPR News)
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/09/21/minneapolis-begins-search-for-firstever-poet-laureate

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