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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 17, 2018
At The Margins, an explanation of "one of the bloodiest and largest mass migrations of people in history,"Â Partition, "when in 1947 the British colonial administration with support from the Indian...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 16, 2018
For those craving more of Emily Dickinson's universe, consider checking out this constellated survey by Jaime Fuller, recently published at Lapham's Quarterly, which ties together additional information about the great...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 16, 2018
Yesterday, the New York Times published a poetry sampler featuring 10 poets with disabilities, edited by Jennifer Bartlett. Bartlett provides an introduction, writing: "Not long after the debut of Disability, the Times’s...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 16, 2018
The Guardian celebrates two "amateur sleuths" who are receiving credit for pinpointing the exact site where William Blake was buried; and the headstone was unveiled yesterday to mark the 191st anniversary of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 16, 2018
The Paris Review discusses its plans to explore more of contemporary poetry's themes and authors, in an article published yesterday on the blog. "This year, The Paris Review will be engaging in an exciting mission...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 15, 2018
Ada Limón's The Carrying is out now! At BOMB, she speaks with Lauren LeBlanc about it and about poetry's freedoms and constraints. "An American poet, now living in Lexington, Kentucky, Ada...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 15, 2018
At Brain Pickings, Maria Popova revisits Maggie Nelson's Bluets (Wave, 2009), "a slim, splendid collection of 240 numbered arguments? meditations? incantations? about the color blue, about its tentacled reach into nearly...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 15, 2018
Patti Smith's introduction to the new edition of Jean Genet's The Thief’s Journal (Grove Atlantic, this month, originally published 1949), "his most exquisite piece of autobiographical fiction," is up at the Paris...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 15, 2018
Alison Flood reports on a trove of poetry discovered in the University of Exeter's archives, in her recent article published at The Guardian. "The forgotten voices of Lancashire’s poverty-stricken cotton...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 14, 2018
Hyperallergic's Sarah Rose Sharp takes a close look at Women of Resistance, recently published by OR Books. "When I picked up Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, a collection...
