Profile: "Her goal... will be to cultivate the next generation of public intellectuals, whoever and wherever they might be, and to widen the press’s audience."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/books/graywolf-press-carmen-gimenez.html
Review: "...we asked some of our favorite authors what they’re reading through the rest of this year."
(The Washington Post)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/06/book-recommendations-famous-authors/
Report: "Five high school students have received a prize that will enable them to share their passion for poetry in their communities and beyond..."
(ABC News)
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https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/high-school-students-serve-national-student-poets-87871213
Interview: "I usually have a plan for what I want a book to be, but it’s there in order to make a space for me to be reckless or instinctive in the particular poems I’m writing."—Samuel Amadon
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/samuel-amadon-on-self-reinvention-and-trusting-your-own-style/
Essay: "Bidart’s work has long been drawn to the blurry boundary between need and compulsion."
(Commonweal)
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/escape-history
Report: "The academy announced Tuesday that it will distribute $1.1 million to 22 laureates through its Poets Laureate Fellowship program."
(ABC News)
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https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/poets-academy-50000-grants-local-state-laureates-87800169
Essay: "There are so many ways to write about a topic, and the more you write about it, the deeper you can go."
(Poets & Writers)
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https://www.pw.org/content/write_it_again?fbclid=IwAR22vV0Xvk1ccN4RY3qvxkj9L6OqLiv1rJ6eIxH-O1LUf5KS3zgT9gaHOeY
Report: "Last fall, the Biden administration sued to block the $2.18 billion sale... The trial will start on Monday..."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/books/penguin-random-house-simon-schuster-antitrust-trial.html
Conversation: "Poetry, for me, is a full-body experience."—Ada Limón
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ada-limon
Review: "Rukeyser... nurtured, over the next forty-four years, a rich body of work which articulated a stark critique of the inequalities entrenched in American society."
(The Baffler)
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/raging-for-the-world-that-is-wade
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