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Essay: "Letters to a Young Poet" has spoken to artists for almost a century. The other half of the famous correspondence reveals the treacherous work of becoming who you want to be.
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-rilke-change-your-life

Roundup: Ben Wilkinson discusses new releases from John Challis, Lorna Goodison, Caleb Klaces, and Ralf Webb.
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/04/the-best-recent-poetry-review-roundup

Announcement: "Natalie Diaz has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection 'Postcolonial Love Poem,' which has been described as 'an anthem of desire against erasure.'"
(ASU News)
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https://news.asu.edu/20210611-creativity-asu-poet-natalie-diaz-wins-pulitzer-prize-postcolonial-love-poem

Announcement: "Craig Santos Perez, a CHamoru poet based in Hawaii, was awarded the gold medal Nautilus Book Award for his 2020 book, 'Habitat Threshold,' which showed that extreme warming is already upon the Pacific."
(Pacific Daily News)
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https://www.guampdn.com/story/life/2021/06/04/chamoru-poet-writes-environment-wins-national-book-award/5287663001/

Interview: "From 2001 to 2007, I wrote very few poems. My daughter was born in 2001.... Working and parenting were what I needed to focus on. And I was of a mind that when time allowed, I would write again. I never doubted that." (MinnPost)
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https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2021/06/poet-michael-kleber-diggs-i-want-to-be-understood-by-as-many-people-as-possible/

Report: "A survey of recent literature in the machine learning category of artificial intelligence shows steady progress in the development of techniques for automatically generating poetry."
(ZD Net)
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-still-writes-lousy-poetry/

Review: "Double Trio moves in the recursive, spiraling way of an improviser juggling a theme. Insofar—I and his travelers move across a quickly shifting landscape of cities and countries, with death keeping time." (Bookforum)
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https://www.bookforum.com/print/2802/nathaniel-mackey-s-ongoing-game-of-language-24514

Obituary: "Friederike Mayröcker, who was among the most influential and decorated German-language poets of the postwar period, died on Friday in Vienna. She was 96." (The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/books/friederike-mayrocker-dead.html

Profile: "Poetry is the way of experiencing the world outside of the everyday commercial expectations that are made of us." —Roberto Tejada
(Texas Monthly)
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/video-how-poet-guggenheim-fellow-roberto-tejada-experiences-world/

Report: "On Thursday, [the Academy of American Poets] announced more than $1 million in grants for 23 local and state laureates."
(Associated Press)
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https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-philanthropy-arts-and-entertainment-3ef07a5d438cf0e6987740b0686424a9