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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 13, 2015
At Literary Hub, Jared Stanley writes about his boredom affair with the beloved Twin Peaks. The essay moves from Stanley's childhood and the private realms of reading and listening, to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 12, 2015
Wow! As we mentioned recently, the finalists for Oxford Professor of Poetry are slowly coming together. At the end of last week, we shared The Guardian's news that Wole Soyinka...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 12, 2015
After ten years of razor-sharp critical, editorial, and curatorial work: Lemon Hound is moving on to greener pastures. We are sad to see Lemon Hound's ever-expanding network stop all of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 12, 2015
At the Huffington Post, Jen Benka—poet and director of The Academy of American Poets—responds to the onslaught of "Is Poetry Dead?" articles that arrive each April, just in time for...
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Poetry NewsBy Michael SlosekMay 12, 2015
This morning treat yourself to some Eileen Myles with her new poem "A Gift for You." Myles composed the poem for the 2015 New Years Day marathon reading at...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 12, 2015
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Lisa Russ Spaar looks back at the second books of Rae Armantrout and Ye Chun. Spaar had us at Tuumba: "I was pleased...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 11, 2015
At Hyperallergic, Felix Bernstein delivers a potentially galvanizing negative critique to the New Museum's 2015 Triennial: “Surround Audience,” and Brian Droitcour's The Animated Reader, the book of poetry published in...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Sina QueyrasMay 11, 2015
[Note: The Editors’ Blog occasionally features online exclusives by Poetry’s contributors. This installment comes from Sina Queyras. Past exclusives can be found here.] In 2004, I started a blog, an act that has, to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 11, 2015
We have to admit: we're scared too! A collection of poems by children entitled A Single Dog has been pulled from bookstores in South Korea after parents complained the volume...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 11, 2015
One rather erudite way to start your week: Susan Howe's 1979 interview with Bernadette Mayer for WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It's been helpfully transcribed by Michael Nardone for Jacket 2 (thanks, Michael!)...