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Interview: "Fists curling and uncurling. People who don't look each other in the eye. Food, and everyone coming together around it. These are the images at the core of Jane Wong's second collection of poems..."
(NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047043937/jane-wong-how-not-to-be-afraid-of-everything-interview

Essay: "Though poetry has always existed and experienced waves of acclaim, the genre is finding new prominence in today's mainstream collective imagination... And, for the most part, poets of color are leading the charge."
(CNN)
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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/poetry-popularity-rising-gorman-kaur-vuong-cec/index.html

Obituary: "As a scholar, lexicographer, translator and critic she was formidable. Her areas of expertise ranged from classical verse to Arthurian legend."
(Irish Times)
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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/m%C3%A1ire-mhac-an-tsaoi-radical-and-uninhibited-in-her-personal-life-conservative-in-her-aesthetic-1.4703717

Profile: "I first dialled while walking around the park, in a leather jacket, in the rain. One of Giorno’s own poems played down the line."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/18/john-giorno-dial-a-poem-returns-fbi-feds-instapoet

Review: "There’s a sacred covenant in the way Smith poets, bearing the responsibility to speak for those erased and unnamed..."
(Chicago Review of Books)
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https://chireviewofbooks.com/2021/10/06/such-color/

Announcement: The TS Eliot Foundation has announced the shortlist for its annual £25,000 poetry prize.
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/14/ts-eliot-prize-unveils-voices-of-the-moment-in-2021-shortlist

Report: "On Sunday, Ayad read out The Ruler by Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar on air. Matar is famous for his satirical and critical poems about dictators from the Arab world. Ayad was arrested soon after."
(BBC News)
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58821420

Announcement: "Artists applying to the nation’s first artist residency program will no longer have to submit reference letters as part of their application."
(Los Angeles Times)
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-10-14/macdowell-artists-residency-drops-reference-letters-requirement-for-now

Conversation: "We are always faced with the limits of language and language’s inability to represent the unspeakable."
(The Adroit Journal Blog)
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https://theadroitjournal.org/2021/09/30/the-elasticity-of-language-a-conversation-with-daniel-borzutzky/

Excerpt: "From your letter we gather that your heart may be taken, but that your head is still up for grabs."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/wislawa-szymborska-on-learning-to-write-from-life/

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