What to Read When You Need to Know SWANA
SWANA writers share recommendations for what to read to gain perspective on the region.
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...moreA look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
...moreDunya Mikhail discusses her new collection, IN HER FEMININE SIGN.
...moreWhat we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
...moreBarbara Berman reviews work by Dunya Mikhail, Thomas Merton, and Robert Lax.
...moreRumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month!
...moreShara Lessley discusses her new collection, The Explosive Expert’s Wife, the task of humanizing those we might dismiss as monsters, and writing toward hope.
...more“All art is somehow a kind of witness, whether to beauty or to anything else.”
...moreIn honor of National Poetry Month, the Washington Post had ten designers create short animations to accompany excerpts of poems.
...more…today’s poetry apologists for the Iraq war just keep repeating their intelligence error odes. Wouldn’t it be better, however, if they would address the horror of the failed effort in Iraq?
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