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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 14, 2018
Jesse Lichtenstein writes for the September issue of The Atlantic about the young generation of poets blowing the door off its hinges: "Emerging poets of this digital-native generation are ready...
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Featured BloggerBy Diana ArterianAugust 14, 2018
There is a distinct and emerging trend within the poetry world that one might traditionally call “poetry of witness,” but bears an ethics I think of as a “counter-monument poetics.”
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 14, 2018
We all know poets don't work alone, but sometimes we need a little help making connections to discover exactly which poets were contemporaries and if they were writing great verse...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 13, 2018
On Friday, we learned of the loss of poet and editor Bill Corbett. A longtime fixture on the Boston poetry scene, Corbett was also the publisher of Pressed Wafer, a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 13, 2018
For the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, Yosefa Raz interviews David Brazil, author of Holy Ghost (City Lights, 2017). "We decided to frame our conversation (now going back and forth...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 13, 2018
Get acquainted with Li-Young Lee's newest collection of poetry, The Undressing, by way of Derek Jg Williams's review at The Rumpus. "Bare skin stretches and rests underneath scant garments in The Undressing,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 13, 2018
Gerard Manley Hopkins, having baffled his contemporaries, is still ahead of the times, writes Séan Hewitt for the New Statesman in a profile encouraging a relook at the poet. "Hopkins is the laureate...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 10, 2018
At Medium, Joshua Cohen discusses the forms of letters that comprise the texts of our dreams. "The letter I’d like to describe did not exist, it seemed, except in the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 10, 2018
Linda Russo's book of essays, To Think of Her Writing Awash In Light: Lyrical Essays on Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman (Subito Press, 2016), is reviewed...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 10, 2018
For this month's installment of the Paris Review Daily's monthly column, Feminize Your Canon, Emma Garman writes about Violette Leduc, every poet's favorite Violette Leduc. "As the novelist and Leduc champion Deborah Levy...
