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Dear Readers, In April 2021 we relaunched Harriet and began featuring a weekly poetry news roundup curated by Amira Hanafi for the Poetry Foundation. For the latest poetry-related...
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- Poetry NewsDear Readers, Poetry News will be on hiatus as we prepare for the Spring 2021 launch of Harriet Books, a books-centered website featuring original, short reviews of new and forthcoming...
- Poetry NewsThe 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 NewsAt 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.
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At Chicago Review of Books, Mandana Chaffa reviews five poetry collections from 2020 that she finds worth revisiting.
- Poetry NewsEunsong 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 and its deployment of...
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At San José Spotlight, Madelyn Reese tells readers about Santa Clara County's first-ever search for a youth poet laureate.
- Poetry NewsWe 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...
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At Comic Book Resources, Theo Kogod suggests five DC comics that readers of poetry might enjoy, starting with Tom King's Batman.
- Poetry NewsAt 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 Thrown in the Throat...
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For Literary Hub, Etel Adnan reflects on living and aging amidst the ongoing California wildfires.
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At Dance Magazine, Hallie Chametzky interviews dancer and poet Cori Kresge, author of isn't devotion (No, Dear; 2019)
- Poetry NewsWe 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...
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As 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 NewsAt 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 her debut ...
- Poetry NewsOn 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 Prize for Poetry this...
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In a useful, delightful year-end roundup, CLMP has gathered over 200 poetry collections published in 2020 by small literary publishers.
- Poetry NewsSix 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 continuously...
- Poetry NewsAt 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-19 pandemic...