Interview: "Poetry, like prayer, is speaking and listening at the same time."—Gabrielle Bates
(Palette Poetry)
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Announcement: "Poet Kim Hye-soon has been named an 'International Writer' by the Royal Society of Literature..."
(The Korea Herald)
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Report: "From the start, Astra Magazine was unusual."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/books/astra-magazine.html

Interview: "Herrick said the diversity in California makes it an ideal place for poetry."
(LARB)
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Profile: "My back issues of APR don’t fit in a box... They rest in a stack; they take up room. Poetry should take up room."
(LitHub)
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Essay: "This music, this way of hymning directly to God... it’s the bedrock upon which my understanding of poetry has been built."—Kaveh Akbar
(Harvard Divinity Bulletin)
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https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/what-can-ancient-spiritual-poetry-teach-us-about-living/

Conversation: "...none of us considered ourselves literary translators."
(Asymptote)
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How small must one be
to be hidden?

—Marianne Boruch
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Obituary: "Poet, artist, publisher, and scholar Bernadette Mayer died November 22 at the age of seventy-seven at her home in East Nassau, New York."
(Artforum)
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Essay: "I don’t think he thought himself as a man out of step with the world—he saw the world as out of step with its own ideal self."
(The Millions)
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