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.

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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At her best, Nomi Stone is able to make an anthropological excavation into something beautiful and haunting, laced with double meanings. But at times she stands in her own way, obscuring our view.

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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the closest men become is when they are covered in blood or nothing at all—from “Naked” HOW IT BEGAN: It started with the body. The learning of desire prompted many of the poems in the early versions of the manuscript. My life shifted when I moved ba

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.

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

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

Scoop

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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

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

Literary Hub

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Midway through the decade when New Young German Poets first circulates across the Americas—as the world itself convulses in what becomes known as “the ’60s”—Celan, home in Paris, meets the young, unpublished French poet and translator of German-langu

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

India Today

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He is too shy to tell that his lyrics have become so popular that even young Pakistanis are humming them and uploading them on YouTube. Most questions put to this 27-year-old, who recently received the prestigious Yuva Sangeet Natak Akademi for his

Scoop

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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 Atlantic

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America had a mind shaped by its Founders, but the country needed the poet to discover its spirit.

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

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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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WHEN I open a book, I open my life,” says artist Diane Samuels. “I find worlds to explore beyond my own. Doors open to experience solace and pleasure and joy.” Writers and readers the world over can surely relate to that feeling of escape that so oft

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.

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

The Atlantic

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The anxious can often find a supportive community through tweeting, but the nature of the social media site can exacerbate symptoms.

Literary Hub

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There are many professions that can rightly claim Walt Whitman as their own. He was, at different times in his life, a carpenter, a schoolteacher, a government clerk, a volunteer nurse, a printer, a typesetter, and the operator of a stationary store.

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

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

Literary Hub

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The 19th century was fixated on manhood. Much has been written about the constraints on Victorian women but gender expectations for men were no less real, although less pronounced. The debates swarming around Wilde were personal, but they also touche

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

Literary Hub

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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, the Morgan Library & Museum exhibits the work of the beloved American poet. Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy traces the development of his writing and influence, from his early days prod

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

The American Poetry Review

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selected by Nick Flynn “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 ma