A Small Universe Set in Motion: Talking with Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, REQUEENING.
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...more“I always feel like I’m starting over. I don’t know how I ever wrote a poem. I really do have that feeling.”
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...moreDawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life.
...moreMonica Sok discusses her award-winning poetry chapbook Year Zero, her interest in Southeast Asian history, and living in isolation.
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...moreTherein lies the brilliance of “Satan Says”: Olds’s Satan is not villainous because he urges the speaker to denounce her parents … but because he is too obtuse to comprehend the uselessness of such denunciations to a curious intellect.
...moreBack in December last year I offered not so much ten definitions but ten clues, fixings, or renditions about lyric poetry. A couple dozen of you chimed in as well, which was fabulous. Let’s do it again! Here’s round two.
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