Learning the Hard Way: A Conversation with Kate Baer
Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
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...moreMaggie Nelson discusses her new book, ON FREEDOM: FOUR SONGS OF CARE AND CONSTRAINT.
...moreWhat makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
...moreTo brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
...moreHow much time do I want with others? How much time do I want with myself?
...more“We wanted to give voice to people who are often spoken for.”
...moreThis collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
...moreIs it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
...moreI remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
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...moreAndrés Cerpa discusses his new collection, THE VAULT.
...moreHer name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
...moreAuthor Mariana Oliver and translator Julia Sanches discuss MIGRATORY BIRDS.
...moreThere was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
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