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A literary blog about poetry and related news.
There are the poems I manage to write, and then, because I don’t believe in “throwing away” poems, there are the poems I’ve begun but don’t know how to finish. I am thinking, again, about “Mine Own John Berryman,” in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
The conversation you didn't know you needed is up at The Believer this week, with Ariana Reines asking questions of?Khadijah Queen.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
At CNN, Tess Taylor?recalls the way it felt to realize, as the presidential election votes were counted, what it will mean to have a president who references literature, again.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
Jean-Thomas Tremblay's new essay for Chicago Review, "Together, in the First Person," considers New Narrative from its incarnation—rooted in work by Dodie Bellamy and Robert Glück—to its "new recruits."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
Jameson Fitzpatrick, author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020), and Alexander Long, author of On Distance (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2018), respond to questions about poetry...
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By Michael Torres
There are the poems I manage to write, and then, because I don’t believe in “throwing away” poems, there are the poems I’ve begun but don’t know how to finish....
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By Tyree Daye
I didn’t open the pages of?Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry?(edited by Charles Henry Rowell) until I was pursuing my MFA at North Carolina State...
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By Tyree Daye
I learned to call it a redbird before a cardinal. My mother pointed and said, “look, there’s a redbird,” and my little face turned to the sky. Where I’m from,...
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By Kimberly Alidio
Whenever poet Kim Hyesoon is asked whether her poetry represents her country — a question that is rarely asked of a poet whose work is perceived to be rooted in...
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are thrilled to announce the twenty-two finalists for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.? Thank you to all who submitted applications....
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors
We’d like to share some updates on the next issues of Poetry magazine.?
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors
Poetry subscribers recently received their July/August print editions and members of our communities have expressed outrage due to racist language used in this poem. We acknowledge that this poem contains racist...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
The conversation you didn't know you needed is up at The Believer this week, with Ariana Reines asking questions of?Khadijah Queen.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
At CNN, Tess Taylor?recalls the way it felt to realize, as the presidential election votes were counted, what it will mean to have a president who references literature, again.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
Jean-Thomas Tremblay's new essay for Chicago Review, "Together, in the First Person," considers New Narrative from its incarnation—rooted in work by Dodie Bellamy and Robert Glück—to its "new recruits."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
Jameson Fitzpatrick, author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020), and Alexander Long, author of On Distance (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2018), respond to questions about poetry...
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