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“A Book of Rhymes is a fundamental part of Charlotte Brontë’s development as a poet, even if it must be considered juvenilia.”
“Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture today announced that Ghanaian American poet, editor, and educator Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah will serve as Boston’s next Poet Laureate.”
“His style is the outsider’s music; he is the bard from the rough heath, which is never decorous.”
“For Mayakovsky, ‘It was a revolution. It was a poem. The poems and the revolution somehow came together in my head.'”
(Jacobin)
“Visual poetry was uniquely poised to transcend languages and nationalities, becoming an international movement through the use of symbols, signs, codes, and other non-alphabetic elements.”
(Fine Books and Collections)
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Wondering what new books have just been published? We seriously consider every book we receive, and we feature poems from many of the best and most interesting collections among them, but it would be impossible to feature every fine book. Browse every book we’ve received in the past six months here—plus the list of journals and magazines we read regularly.
