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Essay: "I wrote myself back to writing, I wrote myself through each day. I wrote myself, however ambivalently, back to life."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/style-as-survival-on-writing-after-death/
Interview: "The truth is that poetry is under everything."
(NYT)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/books/review/morgan-parker-you-get-what-you-pay-for.html
Essay: "Schuyler’s enjambments—at once distinct and soft, like the edge of a leaflet or the margin of a petal—are sites of hesitation where meanings collect before they’re scattered or revised."
(Paris Review)
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/18/its-this-line-here-happy-belated-birthday-to-james-schuyler/
Announcement: Kim Hyesoon has won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Phantom Pain Wings, tr. by Don Mee Choi.
(PW)
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94650-the-2024-national-book-critics-circle-award-winners.html
Conversation: "I think that’s where the whole book arrived, which is to say, you can say all this shit about poetry and poets, but you can’t argue with the Nightingale."
(Interview)
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https://www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/diane-seuss-on-punk-plath-and-the-poetry-of-rage
Essay: "Neither Bishop nor Moore ever broke with people, and both worked hard at friendship."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/what-elizabeth-bishop-and-marianne-moore-learned-from-each-other/
Essay: "Repatriate the language to find poetry in the unlikeliest of origins."
(P&W)
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https://www.pw.org/content/copy_and_paste_on_poetic_theft
Conversation: "I think this almost conscious absentia is also a valid way of writing about identity... It weaves itself in, even when I’m looking at something else."
(LARB)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-past-is-present-a-conversation-with-tracy-fuad/
Interview: "Poetry is such an incredibly ancient technology. If a poem is any good, it’s always good."
(Brooklyn Rail)
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https://brooklynrail.org/2024/03/poetry/A-Comprehensive-Music-Peter-Gizzi-with-Ariana-Reines
Report: "Seven national parks will host special events this year with Ada Limón, the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry."
(National Parks Traveler)
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https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/03/us-poet-laureate-ada-limon-visit-national-parks-poetry-project
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