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Article: "It was a hot June night in 1943, and Frances Angermayer could not sleep. So, she arose after midnight, went to her typewriter, and — in 20 minutes — wrote what was to become the most famous poem of World War II."
(The Kansas City Star)
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/your-kcq/article250558359.html

Report: "Simon Armitage has written a poem to mark the death of Prince Philip, his first to address the royals in his time as poet laureate...." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/17/poet-laureate-simon-armitage-elegy-for-prince-philip-the-patriarchs-an-elegy

Interview: "Line is the revision element that feels most like play to me. While I have a background in metrical form, I admit I find any particular number of metrical feet less interesting than breath as meter..."
(Indy Week)
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https://indyweek.com/culture/page/hannah-vanderhart-interview/

Interview: "In those early books, I was just writing poems. I didn’t have a vision of why these poems needed to be in the places they were, how they were in conversation with each other." —Arthur Sze
(Pasatiempo)
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https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/six-questions-with-arthur-sze/article_e3986448-9176-11eb-9faf-2f45c7f1e960.html

Article: "Historical study of the limerick has been muddled by the fact that much of the literature is infected by what I must call a whimsical wish to find a history as absurd as the form itself." (JSTOR Daily)
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https://daily.jstor.org/there-once-was-a-poem-called-a-limerick/

Announcement: Canadian poet Anne Carson is the recipient of the 2021 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, which includes a $50,000 prize.
(CBC)
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https://www.cbc.ca/books/anne-carson-to-receive-63k-pen-nabokov-award-for-achievement-in-international-literature-1.5978531?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

Column: Nick Ripatrazone discusses new poetry and translations from Craig Morgan Teicher, Deborah Warren, Seema Yasmin, San Juan de la Cruz, Ivana Bodrožić, and Hyam Plutzik.
(The Millions)
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https://themillions.com/2021/04/must-read-poetry-april-2021.html

Announcement: "Poet Ross Gay, whose latest book 'Be Holding: A Poem' is published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, has won a prestigious PEN America Literary Award."
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/04/09/Ross-Gay-Be-Holding-PEN-America-Jean-Stein-Award-University-Pittsburgh-Press/stories/202104090117

Essay: "Kingsley Amis described writing poems as 'a limited risk enterprise'.... The Amis quotation has stayed with me because I only write short things: bits of journalism and poems. My books are accumulations." —Wendy Cope
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/10/a-poem-about-a-dream-wendy-cope-on-making-cocoa-for-kingsley-amis

Interview: "We believe in publishing art for art’s sake.... We tend to think that the greater risk is in what we’d all miss if nobody made space for the voices and projects that fall outside mainstream publishing’s interests."
(Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/interview-with-an-indie-press-coffee-house-press/