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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2017
Today at Literary Hub, Eve Ewing speaks with Rebecca Stoner about race and social injustice in the classroom. Ewing is a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2017
Samiya Bashir's Field Theories (Nightboat Books, 2017) is reviewed by Shane Michael Manieri for Lambda Literary. "The collection looks directly into the eye of blackness, death, slavery, American history, and beauty...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2017
Theodore McCombs talks to Iranian-American poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé about translating The Conference of the Birds (W. W. Norton, 2017), a major work from the 12th-century Sufi poet and theoretician Farīd...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2017
Los Angeles Times heralds a few exciting projects on the horizon focused on honoring poet and environmental activist Lewis MacAdams's contributions to the landscape of the city. First and foremost,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2017
At The Guardian, Mall of America Poet-in-Residence Brian Sonia-Wallace divulges the ins-and-outs of his stay at one of America's more commercial monuments. Although he had understandable anxiety and reservations about...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2017
At Bitch Magazine: In "Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry Is Brown & Queer," Soraya Membreno talks with Vickie Vértiz, author of Palm Frond With Its Throat Cut (University of Arizona Press, 2017); and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal,...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Fred SasakiOctober 10, 2017
Last week the Poetry Foundation opened Signs of Resistance, an exhibition of posters, banners, and other ephemera of direct action made in response to social unrest. The crowd of language...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2017
At Divedapper, Kaveh Akbar spends time with poet Layli Long Soldier, author of WHEREAS. Although the focal point of their conversation is poetry, Akbar and Long Soldier begin with a brief...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 9, 2017
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the winners of the 2017 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose! Congratulations go out to Daniel Borzutzky for translating Valdivia, by Galo Ghigliotto (co·im·press,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 9, 2017
Today at Los Angeles Review of Books, Daniel Olivas reminds us what a year it has been for poet and fiction writer Erika L. Sánchez, whose debut novel I Am...
