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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 25, 2017

    Troy Jollimore reviews Jonathan Blunk's new biography of poet James Wright for the Washington Post's Books section. As Jollimore explains, Wright's poetry had a "dynamic energy," the result of his...

    James Wright
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 25, 2017

    At the BBC, Benjamin Ramm discusses why "tyrants," "megalomaniacs," and "dictators," such as Nero, Stalin, and Mussolini opted to write verse. Ramm leads with this remark: "Poetry is an art of refinement,...

    Painting of Roman emperor Nero
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 25, 2017

    And over at Entropy, don't mind if we do: Will Alexander's entry in the "creative nonfiction" section is "Our Present Psychic State: An Awkward Foreboding," an essay that begins with an epigraph...

    Will Alexander
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 25, 2017

    Doreen Carvajal writes for the New York Times about Federico García Lorca's Andalusia, where he set his play, "Blood Wedding," "based on the crime story in 1928 of a runaway bride...

    Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 24, 2017

    At Literary Hub, poet Spencer Reece discusses his experience teaching poetry (and translation) at Our Little Rose's Home For Girls in Honduras. "The girls grow articulate and more confident. Poetry...

    Spencer Reece in Honduras
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 24, 2017

    At The Guardian, Kate Kellaway looks into Sinéad Morrissey's latest collection, On Balance, which won the 2017 Forward Prize. As Kellaway notes, it's "a collection that keeps extending itself and...

    Sinead Morrissey, On Balance, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 24, 2017

    Over the weekend, musician and writer Franz Nicolay wondered at LARB about the proper relationship between pop music and literature. In so doing, Nicolay considered three books: Daniel Kane’s “Do You Have A Band?”: Poetry...

    Michael Robbins, Equipment for Living, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 24, 2017

    Oh happy day: the legendary Eleanor Antin is interviewed at the Paris Review Daily! Erik Morse talked to Antin about her autumnal rise in Londonthis fall sees "the first major London showcase...

  • From Poetry Magazine
    By Duy DoanOctober 24, 2017

    Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Duy Doan’s poems “Rickshaw Boy” and “Mother’s Dirge” appear in the October 2017 issue. Previous posts in...

    Duy Doan
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffOctober 23, 2017

    At the New Republic, Rachel Stone discusses the popularity of the poetic technique of erasure during the 45th president's rise to power. She begins with a nod to Niina Pollari's...

    Pink rubber eraser
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