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Critical Attachment to Geniuses: Ada Calhoun’s Also A Poet

  • Weishun Lu
  • April 11, 2023
. . . how to simultaneously develop a deep curiosity about cultural icons and maintain a critical distance from them . . .
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Hope and Rapture in the Anthropocene: A conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton

  • Claire Holroyde
  • April 10, 2023
. . . fall in love with honey bees, or fall in love with the forest . . .
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Loving the questions: Religion and poetry with Jennifer Michael Hecht

  • Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • April 5, 2023
Thinking in terms of the poetry of your life is about noticing that you are one of the sentient beings in a universe with billions of galaxies, and your experience is the universe knowing itself and it is weird and messy and painful but it matters.
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The Myriad Conflagrations of our Times: Chloe N. Clark’s Patterns of Orbit

  • Irene Cooper
  • April 4, 2023
In this collection, the reader can slipstream from space shuttle to submarine, from Grimm to Goldilocks to Charybdis, because a cautionary tale that’s never heeded is never out of date . . .
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The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan

  • Diane Gottlieb
  • April 3, 2023
“The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Of all the things we could do with our lives, why write poems?”
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Strength and Feeling in Motion: A conversation with Henri Cole about Gravity and Center

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • March 29, 2023
Horses are a nice metaphor for the sonnet’s strength and feeling in motion. Beauty and violent power come together in an animal form. When I write, I have the feeling of being a rider. As the poem gallops forward, I am knocked about.
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Travels in Paradise: Pico Iyer’s The Half Known Life

  • Leanne Ogasawara
  • March 28, 2023
To try and gain a level of peace amidst the disappointment and chaos of the world is perhaps the only real paradise.
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A reflection on reflection: An interview with Katherine Indermaur

  • EJ Levy
  • March 27, 2023
I did some research on how the vertical slash was used in different contexts, and fell in love with the Sheffer stroke.
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A story is like a nomad: An Interview with Geetanjali Shree

  • Neelanjana Banerjee
  • March 23, 2023
We must return again and again to the whole issue of hegemony of the English language
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Language as Possibility: Renee Gladman’s Plans for Sentences

  • Jay Butler
  • March 22, 2023
. . . think of Gladman’s work as engaging the imagination the way an architect approaches three-dimensional space with a two-dimensional blueprint.
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Learning from Grief: Claudia Putnam’s Double Negative

  • David Weber
  • March 21, 2023
Among the meanings of Claudia Putnam’s cryptic title is a mathematical one, based on the lower left quadrant of graphs; it is a meaning that she chooses, explicates, and explores…
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When The Pipes Inspired the Poets: A conversation with the Boiler House Poets Collective

  • Devon Ellington
  • March 20, 2023
The Boiler House held a magic, as it turned out, for all of us, with its sound installation clanging and pinging in the background, sun slanting through the pipes, pigeon feathers drifting, an occasional passerby pausing to listen.
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