The Christian Science Monitor

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A 1395 translation of the Bible demonstrates that the word 'sad' didn’t mean what it does now.

Scoop

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? I just thought about writing something not overly complex or intricate because poetry generally doesn’t have a plot. I also believed that writing something humorous would add to the competi

Poets & Writers

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FOR our fifteenth annual look at debut poetry, we chose ten poets whose first books struck us with their formal imagination, distinctive language, and deep attention to the world. The books, all published in 2019, inhabit a range of poetic modes. The

NPR

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Poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher presents his annual roundup of the poetry he's looking forward to. This year, he's showcasing a group of poets who he says are holding the darkness at bay.

Poets & Writers

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I just finished reading Jay Baron Nicorvo’s essay “Why We Write: The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief” (January/February 2018), and I am so happy you chose to publish it. When I published my first book of poetry, The Silence of Men, released by Cava

Poets & Writers

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When compiling Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, September 2020), editor Joshua Whitehead writes that it was important “to queer it towards the utopian.” He adds: “We have already

Poets & Writers

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The Song Cave I was never here. I’m not coming back. I’m at sea. —from “Crystal Radio” HOW IT BEGAN: This book is a collection of mostly discrete poems that I wrote in graduate school (a handful were written in the time before and after). I never set

Poets & Writers

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“Poetry can change your life, and it doesn’t happen on the page; it happens in the rooms and places where poetry connects you to people who change how you are in the world,” says Megan Burns, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.

The Paris Review

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This year, The Paris Review will engage in an exciting mission to expand its reaches through the world of poetry. For each of our next four issues, our editor, Emily Nemens, will work in tandem with four quite different, highly esteemed poets to find

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My relationship with poetry feels like my relationship with air. It’s always been there and has always been essential. I rarely discuss poetry, but like air it is always around me: I’m always using it, leaning on it, depending on it. It took me a whi

The Millions

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David Miller’s That Glimpse of Truth was a constant companion this year. It is a collection of 100 stories that Miller believes are amongst the finest ever written. While there are a number of writers whose work I wish Miller had included, each story

Poets & Writers

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Edited by Elizabeth J. Coleman, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, April) features poems that address climate change and environmental degradation along with a guide to environmental activism written by the Union of Concerned Scientists

Poets & Writers

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BY DANA ISOKAWA THE TEN poetry collections featured in our thirteenth annual roundup of debut poets offer a glimpse of the wide range of contemporary poetry. Each of the books, published in 2017, shows just how much poetry can do. Eve L. Ewing’s Elec

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? The criteria was ‘place’ and the first thing that came to my mind was home. Home to me means many things one of which is Scotland, which is where I have lived all my life. So I decided to b

The Paris Review

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In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. ©Ellis Rosen Dearest Poets,

Literary Hub

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In the first of a series looking at the work being done at writing and artists’ residences across America (and beyond!), we’re checking in with the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York (about two hours north of NYC). We asked several recent

Literary Hub

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Stanley Plumly, poet and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, died on Thursday, April 11, 2019 of multiple myeloma at the age of 79. He was the author of ten poetry collections, including Old Heart (2007), winner of the Los Angeles Tim

Poets & Writers

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In his third poetry collection, As One Fire Consumes Another, forthcoming from Orison Books in April, John Sibley Williams confronts the violent side of American history and its effect on our notions of self, fatherhood, and citizenship. “The poems s

Poets & Writers

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Although we often associate travel writing with essays about journeys or roadtrip novels, poetry has had a long, rich history of association with travel. Many nineteenth- and twentieth-century poems explore wanderlust and faraway locales and new mode

Scoop

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Where do you like to write? Anywhere outdoors. Nature is calming and peaceful so it’s easier to really concentrate, but at the same time it’s inspiring. Last year at the Betjeman Poetry Camp we spent five days living in tents in the grounds of Wadde

The American Poetry Review

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“Likenesses is an origin myth, in that it attempts to create the world by naming it. But it’s too late in the game to imagine that whatever is named could simply be, without at the same time being—becoming—something else. Or many somethings elses…. I

Literary Hub

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In this monthly column for Lit Hub, I’ve been sharing the experiences of high school English teachers across the country—the joys, the struggles, what keeps us coming back to the classroom—trying to get to the heart of what Andre Dubus would write on

Writing Magazine

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Win £400 and publication in New Welsh Review in the Language Evolves Short Story Competition, for original, unpublished short stories up to 2,500 words that imagine or engage with how language may have evolved, or may evolve in the future. The winner

Poets & Writers

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Age: Sixty-four. Residence: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Book:Ground, Wind, This Body (University of New Mexico Press, March), a poetry collection exploring the vestiges of war and redemption as a traumatized soldier returns home from WWII carrying a leg

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym

NPR

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It's that time of the year when we tip our hats — and yours — to the art of the verse. All month, tweet your mini poems with the hashtag #NPRPoetry, and we'll pick some to feature on-air and online.

Literary Hub

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On March 10th, 1971, Lou Reed read at the At the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery and announced to the audience that he would no longer play music; he was now a poet. He performed the following poem that night. This is because I alw

Literary Hub

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In this video in support of the Festival Neue Literatur, which celebrates contemporary German-language and American fiction (this year’s theme: Queer as Volk) and begins today in New York, Eileen Myles talks about the importance of translators and FN

Poets & Writers

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POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES state, national, and international prizes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We list only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of less than $1,000 that charge no entry fee, and prestigious nonmonetary awards.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Feathered friends I live in Redondo Beach, a suburban town on Santa Monica Bay. Thus, my little murder of crows is not as grand as the one in Murr Brewster’s April 1 Home Forum essay, “We are observed.” Nevertheless, the “neighbors” make themselves