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Essay: "Hanif Abdurraqib is both a poet and a critic, and masterfully so. Although the line between his art and his writing about art is not always stark, all his work comes from an evident place of love."
—Jay Deshpande (Guernica)
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https://www.guernicamag.com/hanif-abdurraqib-and-the-performance-of-grief/

Essay: "Mary Oppen was born in the kitchen of her parents’ frontier home in Kalispell, Montana, on November 28, 1908....'Meaning a Life' was her first book; she turned seventy the year it was published." —Jeffrey Yang (Poetry Magazine)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/152087/mary-oppen-meaning-a-life

Recommendations: "I turn to poetry all the more, for what it still can do, what it has always done: Take action in language, speak the complicated, multifaceted truth, oppose silence and silencing." --Craig Morgan Teicher (NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/804880385/keeping-the-dark-at-bay-a-2020-poetry-preview

Announcement: M. NourbeSe Philip is the 2020 recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature. The $50,000 award honours a writer whose body of work shows "enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship." (CBC)
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https://www.cbc.ca/books/toronto-poet-m-nourbese-philip-awarded-66k-pen-nabokov-award-for-international-literature-1.5461486

Review: Mark Scroggins discusses work by John Matthias, Caroline Bergvall, and Erica Hunt. (Hyperallergic)
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https://hyperallergic.com/540958/john-matthias-caroline-bergvall-erica-hunt/

Announcement: "The Poetry Society of America is pleased to announce that Toi Derricotte is the 2020 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry." (Poetry Society of America)
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https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/announcing-the-2020-frost-medalist-toi-derricotte

Column: Nick Ripatrazone discusses new collections from Chelsea Dingman, Lisa Ampleman, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Monica Sok, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, & Ciaran Carson. (The Millions)
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https://themillions.com/2020/02/must-read-poetry-february-2020.html

Review: "It is the rare poet that can bounce from Immanuel Kant to Mel Brooks without giving his reader whiplash, but in these pages Mr. Stern dexterously manages these moves like the experienced hoofer that he is." (Post-Gazette)
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https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2020/02/08/Gerald-Stern-Blessed-as-We-Were-Late-Selected-New-Poems/stories/202002090007

Profile: "I had to shut off the idea that my poems are now being read by this wider audience. I’m still invested in this intimate and small table: I can name the people that my poems are for.”--Danez Smith (The Guardian)
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https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/08/danez-smith-interview-white-people-racism-homie

Obituary: "Kamau Brathwaite was a Caribbean poet and historian, praised by the American poet Adrienne Rich for his 'dazzling inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision...." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/05/edward-kamau-brathwaite-obituary

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