Barbara Berman’s National Poetry Month Shout-Out
Barbara Berman reviews seven poetry collections to celebrate National Poetry Month.
...moreBarbara Berman reviews seven poetry collections to celebrate National Poetry Month.
...moreKaveh Akbar discusses his new collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf, finding community in poetry, books on craft, and mining the supernatural for poems.
...more“Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?
...more[A]ll over town, pits in the ground stayed pits in the ground. Those cavities were my consolation. For the moment, we were all in the hole.
...moreAuthor Brenda Miller discusses the lyric essay, her “poet self” who always bleeds through, and what she’s writing about next.
...moreOur understandings of our experiences are sometimes shapeless. Like shadows, they move on.
...moreWhen I read Richard Hugo’s “The Triggering Town” essay some years ago, I understood it intuitively and from my own experience of writing.
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