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For Renee Gladman, drawing and writing function as two sides of the same verbal art.
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Learning PromptBy Leigh Sugar July 22, 2022
Erasure is my leaving the land acknowledgment as the last aspect to develop for a presentation. Erasure is my attempting to suppress and/or conceal my visible neurologic disease symptoms from peers...
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EssayBy Dan Beachy-Quick
Lisa Robertson’s Boat works against the certainties much poetry strives to achieve.
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EssayBy Craig Morgan Teicher
Jay Hopler’s final collection, Still Life, joins a canon of work by poets facing mortality.
Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Stephanie Burt
A secret romance made (almost) public.
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Poem GuideBy Austin Allen
The chilly heart of a whimsical poem
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I have developed affinities for poems that provide a space to rest. This is not to say that poetry can or should avert one’s eyes from political realities, but it might preserve for the reader a place where she can find some forms of repair.
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By Achy Obejas July 11, 2022
When my bilingual poetry collection, Boomerang/Bumerán, was published last year, I felt a tremendous sense of gratification at seeing one of its central elements—the use of non-gendered language, particularly in Spanish—recognized, and...
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By Kim Moore July 5, 2022
In the pub after a reading, a man comes up to me to tell me how men of his generation (he seems to be in his late twenties/early thirties but...
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By Robert Eric Shoemaker June 30, 2022
To let someone into your metaphor so deep as to touch the symbol of your most emotional self is a great risk. The reader of a poem takes great risk...
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By Lucia LoTempio June 30, 2022
I once hosted a post-reading dinner for a well-liked poet who moved between the bounds of academic poet and community poet. There was an imaginary line that bisected the long...
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EssayBy Nicole Rudick
For Renee Gladman, drawing and writing function as two sides of the same verbal art.
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Learning PromptBy Leigh Sugar July 22, 2022
Erasure is my leaving the land acknowledgment as the last aspect to develop for a presentation. Erasure is my attempting to suppress and/or conceal my visible neurologic disease symptoms from peers...
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EssayBy Dan Beachy-Quick
Lisa Robertson’s Boat works against the certainties much poetry strives to achieve.
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EssayBy Craig Morgan Teicher
Jay Hopler’s final collection, Still Life, joins a canon of work by poets facing mortality.
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