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Interview: "I hope, after I’m gone, my work will inspire the next generation of CHamoru writers to carry on the struggle and to keep writing towards freedom."
(BOMB Magazine)
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BOMB Magazine | Craig Santos Perez by Diana Arterian

Remapping Guåhan with decolonial poetry.

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Profile: "Luther Hughes was 12 years old when poetry made its first impact on them."
(Seattle Mag)
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Most Influential: Luther Hughes

Uncover the beauty and depth of Luther Hughes' poetry. Dive into their exploration of human behavior through vivid imagery and powerful language.

seattlemag.com

Conversation: "When we want to articulate what at first seems impossible to parse out in words, when we want to probe, where else are we to turn, but poetry?"
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Carol Moldaw

One of the many pleasures of Carol Moldaw’s seventh collection, Go Figure, is its fidelity to description. “Bulb...

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Essay: "Epics have often shored up empires."
(The Nation)
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Why Is the Right Obsessed With Epic Poetry?

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war.

www.thenation.com

Interview: "For me a good poem has to have charm. That is, charm in the deeper sense of that word — magic."
(Post and Courier)
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A Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser, of Garland, Neb., served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005.

www.postandcourier.com

Essay: "[Loy] has been grouped with the futurists, Dadaists, surrealists, and feminists and described as a poet, a painter, a critic, a model, and an art dealer. The woman was all of those things and none of them."
(LARB)
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Complexity as a Liberatory Practice | Los Angeles Review of Books

Tara Anne Dalbow explores artist-poet Mina Loy’s thrilling embrace of contradiction.

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Report: "It’s a little weird that Nashville doesn’t have a poet laureate."
(Nashville Scene)
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Despite a Thriving Literary Scene, Nashville Lacks a Poet Laureate

Asking poets about what an established laureate could bring to the city

www.nashvillescene.com

Essay: "Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing."
(NYT)
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Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did.

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

www.nytimes.com

Report: "Readers could be forgiven for thinking that it was not the work of one of the great writers of the 20th century."
(The Times)
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What would you do for money? Dorothy Parker wrote bad poetry

Verses anonymously published in Life magazine in 1928 have been identified as the work of the American poet

www.thetimes.com

Profile: "'Unlike any woman in my family or anyone I’d ever actually known, I was going to become — something, anything, whatever that meant,' Hettie Jones once wrote."
(NYT)
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Hettie Jones Helped Kickstart New York’s Beat Scene

Despite her husband's betrayal, she recreated herself as the writer she always was.

www.nytimes.com

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