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Profile: "At times, Jones would have to wrestle these poems into existence, laboring while seated at the desk in his Short North apartment."
(Columbus Alive)
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https://www.columbusalive.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/11/17/saeed-jones-discovers-joy-end-world/8653132002/

Report: "After 18 months of detention under Sri Lanka's draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act, Muslim poet Ahnaf Jazeem, was brought before the High Court in Puttalam on Monday."
(Tamil Guardian)
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https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/after-18-months-muslim-poet-ahnaf-jazeem-brought-high-court

Interview: "Because I came up as this Latina poet, I felt a lot of pressure to be this person that I wasn't or [to write] poetry that I didn't necessarily want to do. You know, I kind of just wanted to write horror stories."
(NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1048525863/in-dreaming-of-you-poet-melissa-lozada-oliva-reimagines-selenas-legacy

Report: "Ai-Da, who was built over two years by a team of programmers, roboticists, art experts and psychologists, has previously had solo exhibitions at Oxford and the Design Museum in London..."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/26/robot-artist-to-perform-ai-generated-poetry-in-response-to-dante

Review: "Believing in the power of location to act as a source of important instructions is a condition of being transformed."
(Poetry Northwest)
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https://www.poetrynw.org/a-condition-of-being-transformed-lessons-of-place-in-devon-walker-figueroas-philomath/

Announcement: The Vancouver poet Lise Gaston has won the CBC Poetry Prize for her collection 'James.'
(CBC)
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https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/vancouver-poet-lise-gaston-wins-2021-cbc-poetry-prize-1.6251329

Report: "He kept a Royal typewriter on his desk, the brand he would prefer for the rest of his life."
(The Harvard Gazette)
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/john-ashberys-typewriter-installed-at-harvard/

Review: "While Adam O. Davis’s debut... focuses on ghosts and the places where they linger, its spectral figures never appear overtly."
(New Ohio Review)
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https://newohioreview.org/2021/05/10/review-adam-o-daviss-index-of-haunted-houses/#more-22918

Announcement: "The poet Robert Bly, who counted the National Book Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal among his many honours, has died. He was 94."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/22/robert-bly-award-winning-american-poet-died-age-94

Essay: "The incredible access we have now to Shakespeare’s work is thanks to a handful of enterprising publishers who saw the earning potential of making the bard’s texts readily available to read."
(The Independent)
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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/william-shakespeare-publishers-famous-b1959318.html

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