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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 4, 2018
One aspect of "Black Male Writers for Our Time," which we mentioned yesterday, is the proximate feature, "15 Books to Read by Black Female American Writers," wherein some of the men...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 4, 2018
Poet and publisher Krystal Languell reviews Rosa Alcalá's MyOther Tongue (Futurepoem Books, 2017) for Hyperallergic. "Perhaps these poems are most frequently concerned with depicting the development of skills in response to urgent or unexpected circumstances,"...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2018
Straight from her national tour, Tracy K. Smith joins Jericho Brown at The Believer where the two discuss her objectives as poet laureate and spirituality. Brown begins with the question, "What...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2018
At the New Yorker, listen to the latest installment of the magazine's poetry podcast, hosted by poetry editor Kevin Young, featuring Deborah Landau, who reads poetry by Anne Sexton in addition to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2018
In an illustrious feature for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Ayana Mathis (with creative direction from Boots Riley) brings readers face-to-face with several prominent and emerging black male...
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Open DoorBy David ShookDecember 3, 2018
“I have no biography,” Jaff said in Kurdish, looking out over the audience assembled in the wood-paneled auditorium.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2018
At Wyoming Public Media, London Homer-Wambeam reports on an article published in the magazine Bioscience, which encourages the use of poetry as a science-teaching tool. The paper "looks at how poetry...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 30, 2018
The New York Review of Books features a review by Elisa Gabbert of two recent books with sonnets as a common thread: A.E. Stallings's Like (FSG, 2018) and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 30, 2018
Looks like BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics)) might be the first to make a "Best Books of 2018" list that's caught our eyes; and they have good taste (that, and poets are writing...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 30, 2018
After suffering from complications of viral encephalitis, Eloise Klein Healy had to relearn how to write poetry. Red Hen Press published her new book, Another Phase, this week. At Los Angeles Review...
