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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 25, 2020
Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks with APR host Michel Martin about solitary confinement, his newest collection, Felon, and offers tips to poet-listeners planning to participate in NPR's National Poetry Month festivities.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 25, 2020
The Paris Review's new video series, "Poets on Couches," kicks off with a broadcast directly from Stephanie Burt's home to yours.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 25, 2020
At Hyperallergic, Hakim Bishara helps urge readers to buy directly from small presses instead of Amazon in these tough times, referencing Ugly Duckling Presse's recent open letter.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 24, 2020
"[W]hether we’re in the room alone or not, the psychological task, the spiritual task has been universalized," writes Ariana Reines in her New Moon Report for Artforum.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 24, 2020
The Believer has announced the 2019 winners of The Believer Book Awards, and poet and writer Trisha Low has won in the nonfiction category for Socialist Realism (Coffee House, 2019)!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 24, 2020
Leading into their discussion, Paul Lisicky explains, "Mark Bibbins and I have known each other for the better part of twenty years."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 24, 2020
We're happy to report that an excerpt from Mark Nowak's latest book, Social Poetics, is available to read at Literary Hub.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 23, 2020
At The Rumpus, Neimark notes that Diaz's latest collection "brings us the body in the form of bodies so rarely sung by, so rarely seen by, our dominant culture."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 23, 2020
Poet and scholar Jennifer Cooke, author of Legacies of plague in literature, theory and film (Palgrave), has penned a piece for Commune about our new reality.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 23, 2020
"The Future of Poetry, it would seem, is an eternal question," says Joyelle McSweeney, quoted by Dennis Cooper in a post about the five books of poetry he's read and...
