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Lullaby

Huan He

The night rests in a dust bed, hushed asleep despite the dull thud of Nakaya cutting firewood, a lullaby in a dream in a wish.

from the book Sandman / Diode Editions

Interview: "This is a coming-of-age book in a lot of ways, as many first books are."—Gabrielle Bates
(Adroit)
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Issue Forty-Four: A Conversation with Gabrielle Bates

Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023). A Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry ...

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Profile: The San Diego Union-Tribune talks with new San Diego poet laureate Jason Magabo Perez.
(San Diego Union-Tribune)
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San Diego has a new poet laureate. But he sees you as the voice of the city.

Jason Magabo Perez's work as a writer and teacher has prepared him for what he wants to accomplish in the role...

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Review: "...it’s hard to believe that Judas Goat is Gabrielle Bates’s debut collection."
(Chicago Review of Books)
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The Price of Survival in “Judas Goat”

Our review of Gabrielle Bates’ debut collection, “Judas Goat”

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Interview: "I see part of my job as an (involuntary) immigrant and settler as working to understand the mechanisms of colonialism..."
(SER)
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An Interview with Sun Yung Shin

An Interview with Sun Yung Shin Brett Hanley 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea, and was rai...

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Profile: "But Joseph is a poet at his core... and arguably it is through his poetry that he takes on his toughest subjects..."
(The Guardian)
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TS Eliot prize winner Anthony Joseph: how poetry helped me love my absent father

The writer on switching from rock to poetry and how Sonnets for Albert explores his relationship with a missing ...

www.theguardian.com

Report: "The discovery expands Wheatley’s canon at a time of growing interest in and scholarship around the poet..."
(U Albany)
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UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley

A University at Albany professor has discovered the earliest known full-length elegy by famed poet Phillis Wheatley ...

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Review: "Summer is an embodied book, which means it is a book that is itself haunted..."
(Asymptote)
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Jared Joseph reviews Summer by Johannes Göransson - Asymptote

Pohřební hudbaVykřičené domy se hemží zákazníky pastucha který navštívil ...

www.asymptotejournal.com

Review: "Doubling as a spellbook, this collection performs speech acts that reach for healing and integration..."
(Poetry NW)
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Dreams of Cells and Wolves

Doubling as a spellbook, this collection performs speech acts that reach for healing and integration, all while medi...

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Conversation: "I am always pleased when I can get rhythms of speech to slot into a metrical line."—A. E. Stallings
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: A. E. Stallings

This Afterlife is A. E. Stallings’s new Selected Poems, drawing on her four full-length books, and including a...

www.mcsweeneys.net

Essay: "All poems start by accident..."—Gerald Stern
(LitHub)
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Gerald Stern on the Accidental Beginnings of Poems

The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. * All poems start by...

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What Sparks Poetry

Translation

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.

In our series focused on Translation, we invite poet-translators to share seminal experiences in their practices, bringing poems from one language into another. How does the work of translating feel essential to the writing of one’s own poetry? Our contributors reflect on inspiring moments as intricate as a grammatical quirk and as wide-ranging as the history or politics of another place.

This week's issue: Andrew Zawacki on Sébastien Smirou’s “The Lion”

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January 26, 2023

from “Repeat Until Time”

Hannah Sullivan

Antsy on the windows, in the heat, An uncertain hosanna. It is hard to say if there is progress in history.

January 25, 2023

Look at This Blue (excerpt)

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Orion hovering eastward drawn, readied. Someone slinks past doorjamb each choke hold felled vaporizes cognizance.

January 24, 2023

The Dog

Gabrielle Bates

I could imagine a version of our lives in which he kept all his suffering secret from me.

January 23, 2023

The Lion

Sébastien Smirou (translated from the French by Andrew Zawacki)

these psychedelic dreams where I’m zoomorphic—must discuss relaxed along the field I give the feeling of a feeling worth two cents I charge as usual blood rush my head spinning I trigger a sort of revolution—better see about that.

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