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Diamond Forde on poison, fan fiction, and writing the Great American Vampire Novel.
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney entombs him as the bard of a fading liberal order.
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Today on VS, Brittany and Ajanae discuss with aja monet on the role of anger and passion as poets and people, identity as a type of performance, the significance of feeling the poem in the body, poetry as a spiritual practice, and navigating the language, ethics, and the care that we give to people vs. causes.
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Frank X Walker was born in Danville, Kentucky, and earned a BA from the University of Kentucky and an MFA from Spaulding University. He helped to found the Affrilachian Poets group and served as founding editor and publisher of PLUCK!, the new Journal of Affrilachian Art & Culture. His poetry collections include Load in Nine Times (Liveright, 2024), winner of a PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, About Flight (2015), Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar...
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