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The well

Lasse Söderberg (translated from the Swedish by Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché)

He who wants to remember, and is full of darkness himself, must stand by the brim of himself as by a well...

from the book The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg / Arrowsmith Press

Interview: "As I was thinking about writing these poems, I was thinking about Seattle and all its lushness."—Luther Hughes
(The Seattle Times)
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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-poet-luther-hughes-on-a-shiver-in-the-leaves-his-debut-collection/

Announcement: "The Poetry Foundation announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows..."
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/158671/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly-dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows

Essay: "Berrigan’s poems are paced like the films of the New Wave, and they’re at least as funny."—Jordan Davis
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158608/what-do-i-say-next-fast

Announcement: "Marilyn Nelson has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets..."
(AP)
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https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-new-york-adrienne-rich-kevin-young-ecd0db8fa1460582721c47d434dba859

Review: "...Midwood’s poems form their own kind of travelogue, one written from the countries of aging, of motherhood, of inwardness..."
(The Nation)
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jana-prikryl-midwood/

Essay: "Shelley belonged to a new wave of radicals."
(Jacobin)
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https://jacobin.com/2022/09/percy-bysshe-shelley-poetry-politics-revolution

Announcement: The longlist for the 2022 National Book Award in poetry has been announced.
(The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2022-national-book-awards-longlist-poetry

Conversation: "I love the poets for whom the world is a kind of grab bag of poetry."—Adrian Matejka
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/adrian-matejka

Review: 'Solmaz Sharif wrestles with the ways that acclaim can become an imperial enclosure; I once heard her say, “I try to write poems that make it impossible to applaud afterward.”'—Claire Schwartz
(Jewish Currents)
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https://jewishcurrents.org/terms-of-entry

Essay: "The power of John Donne’s words nearly killed a man."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/opinion/john-donne-death.html

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