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Profile: "I felt the weight of speaking to all of that in that moment, the weight of being authentically a Palestinian writer on that stage."
(Seattle Times)
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Seattle-area poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on National Book Award win

Tuffaha's National Book Award-winning poetry collection "Something About Living" features poems about the Palestinian experience.

www.seattletimes.com

Report: "No one thinks of Edinburgh as a great Gaelic city but it is. Gaelic poets have always lived here."
(BBC)
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Lewis-born Gaelic poet Peter Mackay appointed Scotland's Makar

Lewis-born Peter Mackay was named as the latest holder of the national poetry role at an Edinburgh event.

www.bbc.com

Report: "A portrait of Robert Fergusson has been discovered at a Scottish castle and could help shed new light on the celebrated 18th-century poet."
(The Herald)
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Historic painting of poet who inspired Robert Burns discovered at Scottish castle

A portrait of celebrated 18th-century poet Robert Fergusson has been discovered at a Scottish castle.

www.heraldscotland.com

Conversation: "I think, in a way, a queer childhood provides painful but valuable instruction on how to be a poet: we learn early the power—and often necessity—of solitude."
(Adroit)
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A Conversation with Matthew Gellman

Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of BOA Editions, Ltd.’s A. ...

theadroitjournal.org

Essay: "Sylvia’s diaries, meticulously kept for almost every day from 1944 to 1949, reflect her early realization that you could broadcast your own life, as Jack Benny did on his radio show (another of her favorites)."
(Lit Hub)
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How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

For two weeks in July 1944, Sylvia Plath attended Camp Helen Storrow at Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts, averaging a ...

lithub.com

Retrospective: "He pointed out that, in the past, poetry books were bestsellers, and poetry needed to have its own category recognized. We voted and added poetry unanimously."
(Publishers Weekly)
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Looking Back at 75 Years of the National Book Awards

This year, the National Book Foundation celebrated the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards. To mark the m...

www.publishersweekly.com

Essay: "Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an epic reflection on political defeat and the possibility of hope."
(Jacobin)
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John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mourned a Revolution Betrayed

John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind,...

jacobin.com

Report: "A museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet and satirist Lord Byron is due to open in ... Ravenna, housed in the same building where he pursued an intense affair with the wife of an aristocrat."
(The Guardian)
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Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair

Visitors will be able to explore Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where Byron romanced its aristocrat owner’s wife

www.theguardian.com

Essay: "Pope’s masterpiece was born of the union of a number of grudges."
(Lit Hub)
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“Make it New… Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

Alexander Pope is hardly an unknown quantity. Born in London to a family of merchants in 1688 and buried in a ...

lithub.com

Obituary: "Henry Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia ... died Oct. 13 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
(Washington Post)
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Henry Taylor, prize-winning poet with an eye on rural life, dies at 82

He won a Pulitzer for “The Flying Change,” a 1985 collection reflecting his love of horses and his upbringing in Virginia hunt country.

www.washingtonpost.com

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