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Paradise Lost

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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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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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Owning the Narrative: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes

  • Hannah Grieco
  • March 16, 2020
Megan Fernandes discusses her new collection of poetry, GOOD BOYS.
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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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Personal, Political, and Poetic: A Conversation with Susan Briante

  • Sarah Blake
  • April 5, 2017
Susan Briante discusses The Market Wonders, her newest collection of poetry in which she draws on market indicators like the Dow Jones Industrial Average to construct a criticism of contemporary culture.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Monica Youn

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 20, 2016
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Monica Youn about her new collection Blackacre, hypothetical tracts of land, Milton, and infertility.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Old Friends Or Lovers

  • David Biespiel
  • November 3, 2015
I was becoming awed by the wide horizon of the speech that arose out of an individual life lived in a single era and generation. I was becoming attracted to the writer’s creativity.
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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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Secret Paintings Magically Appear in Old Books

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 19, 2013
If you haven’t yet seen these secret fore-edge paintings—paintings that appear on the side of the book opposite the spine when you squish the pages into a slanted line—they’re well…
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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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