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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2013
--though, most likely not. Well, who knows. Either way, check out this fantastic article by Paul Constant with Q+A by the recent winner of a "Stranger Genius Award." (That's our...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2013
A hot tip from Black Ocean Publishers lead us to this cool and timely Q+A with Black Ocean author, D.J. Dolack. We found this part of the interview particularly compelling: 5...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay GarbuttOctober 3, 2013
Adam Bateman installation The Reading List is a new feature of the Editors’ Blog this year. Each month we ask Poetry’s contributors to share a book—or several—that held their interest...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2013
In memory of Anselm Hollo, who passed away earlier this year, the Poetry Project has published this gorgeous tribute. It begins with a remembrance by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo—his partner of many...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2013
At the New Directions blog: the introduction to Muriel Rukeyser's Elegies, which ND has just reprinted! Originally published in 1949, the Elegies "were written over a seven-year period from the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2013
NPR and The Guardian both report that "champion of spirit and self" Michael Symmons Roberts has won this year's UK Forward Prize for best book of poetry, worth £10,000 (about...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2013
In case you were thinking of pilfering some Robert Frost letters and Christmas cards, think again. Such thievery will get you a fine of not $1, not $10, but a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2013
Poets making visual art that isn't visual poetry—heck yes! Thanks to The Volta's October issue, you can check out a bevvy of poets working through their visual artistic practice. We're...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyrone WilliamsOctober 2, 2013
In her well-known essay “How We Became Posthuman,” N. Katherine Hayles links the disappearance of the liberal humanist subject to the distribution of human desire and will through digital technology....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2013
Five sessions! Starts October 10th! Who else leads writing workshops like Tan Lin? No one! That's right. It's going to be one of the best, neatest, and most refreshing experiences...