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Fighting the Weightiness of Metaphors: A Conversation with M. Leona Godin

  • Kerry Kijewski
  • August 27, 2021
Dr. M. Leona Godin discusses her new book, THERE PLANT EYES.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae

  • Dana Levin
  • May 17, 2021
I’m fascinated that the speaker’s harm disappearing is a function of being in Hell.
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Frenetic, Excitable, and Direct: Sylvie Baumgartel’s Song of Songs

  • Kate O’Donoghue
  • May 15, 2020
This poem lets her—the speaker and Baumgartel—be too much.
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Any Day Now: A Conversation with Anjali Sachdeva

  • Ed Simon
  • July 6, 2018
Anjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
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The Way That Poetry Works: Holdfast by Christian Anton Gerard

  • Emma Bolden
  • January 5, 2018
In his searing, soulful second collection, Gerard uses the language that is poetry to invite the reader in to the experience of his darkest and brightest moments.
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How to Survive as a Villain in Literature

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • August 25, 2016
On NPR’s All Things Considered, Petra Mayer offers advice to those who she describes as the “unpunished” villains of literature (O’Brien from Orwell’s 1984, X-Men’s Magneto, Milton’s Satan): win over the…
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Paradise Lost and Scurvy Found

  • P.E. Garcia
  • May 15, 2015
Sudden sounds, such as the report of a musket or a cannon, were well known to kill scorbutic sailors. Even pleasant stimuli such as a drink of fresh water, or…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Brief Inner Happiness

  • David Biespiel
  • May 12, 2015
Writing requires sustained attention to what figures, disfigures, and refigures our imaginations and includes a vision that takes every experience into account.
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Authors’ Pet Words and What They Reveal

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 16, 2013
How much do an author’s most-used words reveal about his or her thought process? Quite a lot, according to this New Yorker essay on pet words both common and uncommon, both…
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Tips for Poets Inspired by Another Dead White Male

  • Shara Lessley
  • April 15, 2009
In order to become an epic poet, Milton believed he must also refuse “lustral waters.” In other words, aspiring artists must remain chaste.
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