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- Poetry NewsByThe New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research and Culture may be temporarily closed, but librarians have been busy digitizing and curating several new …
- Poetry NewsByAt Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams writes about the significance of Joe Biden's stutter, and about how, as a child, he would memorize poetry to help him manage his stutter…
- Poetry NewsByAt Chicago Review of Books, Mandana Chaffa reviews five poetry collections from 2020 that she finds worth revisiting.
- Poetry NewsByEunsong Kim's new essay in Michigan Quarterly Review dissects and reflects on Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, asking central questions "about white feminist poetry …
- Poetry NewsByPoet Koon Woon talks with David Fewster of Rain Taxi about describing himself as a "paper-son poet."
- Poetry NewsByAt San José Spotlight, Madelyn Reese tells readers about Santa Clara County's first-ever search for a youth poet laureate.
- Poetry NewsByWe are saddened to learn of the recent passing of Jean Valentine, an influential and beloved poet and educator who published fourteen poetry collections and won numerous…
- Poetry NewsByAt Comic Book Resources, Theo Kogod suggests five DC comics that readers of poetry might enjoy, starting with Tom King's Batman.
- Poetry NewsByAt the New York Times, Elisa Gabbert considers the role of punctuation in two books of poetry published this year: THRESHOLES (Coffee House) by Lara Mimosa Montes and…
- Poetry NewsByFor Literary Hub, Etel Adnan reflects on living and aging amidst the ongoing California wildfires.
- Poetry NewsByAt Dance Magazine, Hallie Chametzky interviews dancer and poet Cori Kresge, author of isn't devotion (No, Dear; 2019)
- Poetry NewsByWe can't end 2020 without a note about a November publication by the under-recognized New Narrative writer Gabrielle Daniels, whose work "spans essays, fiction, poetry…
- Poetry NewsByAs usual, the New Yorker adds to the year-end-list fun with their 2020 "Year in Poetry," which points back to the work the magazine has published.
- Poetry NewsByAt the Straits Times, Olivia Ho congratulates Marylyn Tan who made history this year as the first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry for …
- Poetry NewsByOn Morning Edition, Jeevika Verma spends time with torrin greathouse, author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), which won the Ballard Spahr…
- Poetry NewsByIn a useful, delightful year-end roundup, CLMP has gathered over 200 poetry collections published in 2020 by small literary publishers.
- Poetry NewsBySix days ago, for Jacket2, Nick Sturm expanded minds and hearts with his focus on the art of Alice Notley: "Like her visionary poetry, which she has written and published…
- Poetry NewsByAt The Guardian, Vanessa Thorpe writes about UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and British filmmaker Brian Hill's latest project, which documents the effects of the Covid…