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Interview: "...my relationship to writing only improved when I stopped looking up and elsewhere and started sharing work with the friends around me."
(Financial Times)
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Poet Will Harris: ‘The trait I find most irritating in others? An excessive love of fascism’

The writer on mentors, his Tubby Custard obsession and free will

www.ft.com

Report: "...the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years."
(LitHub)
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Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.

Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 y...

lithub.com

Essay: "How do you see the person you’ve lived with for decades as if for the first time? How do you make the 10,000th kiss romantic and new?"
(Oprah Daily)
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How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad Rhymes)

The poet and author of Skeletons shares her tips for a writing a love poem—as well as some surprises.

www.oprahdaily.com

Interview: "If we hold too tightly to the reigns of logic or control, we diminish the possibilities for mystery..."—Maya C. Popa
(BOMB)
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BOMB Magazine | Maya C. Popa Interviewed

The poet on writing about and welcoming the modulations of joy, grief, transcendence, and reckoning.

bombmagazine.org

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Nikola will hold a “Fireside Chat” and Q&A session for Stockholders with CEO Michael Lohscheller on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT) to address questions related to the upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Learn more here:

Profile: “My mother was a tether to my heritage that I lost growing up.”
(The Harvard Gazette)
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Graduate’s poetry taps into grief, Iranian roots

Darius Atefat-Peckham ’23 honors his mother's legacy through his own work and bringing her unfinished poetry to light.

news.harvard.edu

Interview: "I began as a fiction writer... but I fell in love with poetry and its avenues of bewilderment."—Jane Wong
(PEN America)
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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jane Wong

In this PEN Ten interview, we talk with Jane Wong about the connections between poetry and memoir and community as creative fertilizer.

pen.org

Essay: "If we are going to outsource the complexity of human aliveness, then what is the point of being alive, you know?"
(The Hindu)
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Will writers and publishers accept the ChatGPT poet?

Faced with AI-generated poetry written by ChatGPT, poets Tishani Doshi and Meena Kandasamy share the humanity involved in their process.

www.thehindu.com

Profile: "Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach was just 6 years old when she came to the U.S. in 1993 with her family, Jewish refugees from Dnipro, Ukraine."
(501 Life Mag)
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Author of the Month: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

By Susan Peterson Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach was just 6 years old when she came to the U.S. in 1993 with her f...

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