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Announcement: "A digital collection of manuscripts and photographs related to the Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas held at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now online..."
(UT News)
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https://news.utexas.edu/2021/05/14/dylan-thomas-digital-collection-launched-online/

Review: "The profession of playwright didn’t exist when Shakespeare was born. Seeing him this way, in a world of work and of workers, might help us to revise some of the sentimental stories we tell about the sweet swan of Avon."
(Spectator)
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https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/05/wills-world/

Announcement: "The Maine Arts Commission has launched its search for a new state poet laureate to succeed Deer Isle poet Stuart Kestenbaum for a five-year term."
(The Ellsworth American)
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https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/living/arts-a-living/new-maine-poet-laureate-sought/

Review: "Ryan is always clear, never coyly oblique. Indeed, there’s a relief in reading her ruthlessly specific judgments. By that, I don’t necessarily mean 'fierce opinions of other people’s work,' though she has those."
(Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-a-brazen-poet-on-the-essays-of-kay-ryan-outsider/

Feature: "Six of the UK’s best poets reveal exclusive new work and reflect on the last year, losing relatives, long-distance relationships and 'artistic claustrophobia.'" (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/08/windows-on-the-world-pandemic-poems-by-simon-armitage-hollie-mcnish-kae-tempest-and-more/

Column: Nick Ripatrazone discusses four newly published collections, including work by Isabel Duarte-Gray, Donika Kelly, Christopher Merrill, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.
(The Millions)
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https://themillions.com/2021/05/must-read-poetry-may-2021.html

Essay: "[...]Adam Zagajewski was the kind of person who would offer to drop you off at your hotel after a poetry reading only to pull over midway to better focus on a conversation about poetry." —Ilya Kaminsky
(The Yale Review)
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https://yalereview.yale.edu/going-lvov

Profile: "Yi Lei and [Tracy] Smith had limited direct communications, but they treated each other dearly. In photos, they always held each other’s hands tightly, like long-separated sisters."
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-second-life-of-yi-leis-poetry

Interview: "When language fails me, it means there’s more work to do — this can be frustrating of course — but what I’ve learned is you have to trust the failure of words."
(Los Angeles Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-radical-love-of-the-inflamed-heart-a-conversation-with-nikki-wallschlaeger/

Review: "Parry...completely revolutionize[d] the study of Homer’s 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey,' showing that the epics had not been written, as had long been thought, but were oral — composed in the act of performance."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html

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