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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2019
An excerpt from Danish poet Naja Marie Aidt's exploration of grief following the death of her son, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back (Coffee House), is up at the Paris...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2019
In a piece for Lit Hub, Kayo Chingonyi essentially questions the notion that he should apply capitalist measures of success to his practice as a poet.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2019
Katy Waldman reviews Saeed Jones's new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, this month), for the New Yorker.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2019
On September 27th, Semaj Brown became the first poet laureate of the city of Flint by mayoral proclamation.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2019
Neil Genzlinger of the New York Times explains that Carson's "poetry and prose captured the pungency, tensions and rich heritage of Northern Ireland, especially his native Belfast."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2019
The Nobel Prize committee has announced laureates for both 2018 and 2019 this morning, marking the Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author and playwright Peter Handke as the newest Nobel...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2019
In a remembrance published at the New Yorker, Kevin Young recalls Carson's life and words.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2019
Seattle Seahawks receiver Tyler Lockett began writing poetry during his senior year at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2010.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 9, 2019
For the October issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Tony Leuzzi talks to poet Arthur Sze about his new collection, Sight Lines (Copper Canyon, 2019).
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 9, 2019
At LARB, David S. Wallace discusses visiting Walt Whitman's grave on what would have been the poet's 200th birthday.
