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Report: "U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón on Thursday revealed her poem that will fly to Jupiter's moon Europa aboard NASA's Europa Clipper mission."
(Axios)
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Read the poem NASA is sending to Europa next year

Ada Limón's new poem connects Earth and the watery world

www.axios.com

Profile: "I do think that artists in general have an openness and a need to receive the world."—Ada Limón
(CBC)
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U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón celebrates nature, family and human connection in The Hurting Kind |...

Limón's sixth collection, The Hurting Kind, is shortlisted for the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize.

www.cbc.ca

Conversation: "I have learned that the right time to write love poetry to a burning world is when it is burning—and it’s always burning."
(McSweeney's)
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Short Conversations with Poets: Katie Farris

“Why,” asks Katie Farris in the title poem of her new book’s opening poem, “write love poetry in a burni...

www.mcsweeneys.net

Interview: "I had thought, after most of half a century of inquiry, I knew something about the nature of time."—Jorie Graham
(The Harvard Gazette)
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Jorie Graham confronts time and her own mortality in new book

“Mortality got my attention. And it was — as we are told to believe but rarely do — a gift,” says th...

news.harvard.edu

Announcement: Emily Riddle has won the 2023 Canadian First Book Prize.
(Griffin Poetry Prize)
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Finalists & Winners - Griffin Poetry Prize

griffinpoetryprize.com

Interview: "Is a poem more based in space or in time? Is it more like a sculpture or a film?"
(Chicago Review of Books)
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Clarity and Complexity: A Conversation with Annelyse Gelman about “Vexations”

An interview with Annelyse Gelman about her latest collection, “Vexations”

chireviewofbooks.com

Essay: "One evening in the hospital in mid-February, I read him some of my favorite poems, poems that my own mother had read to me as a child."
(The Washington Post)
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Opinion | Poems offered me an anchor as I lost my son, so I shared them

Words that held my dying child rapt touched others around the world. Here's how.

www.washingtonpost.com

Interview: "...my relationship to writing only improved when I stopped looking up and elsewhere and started sharing work with the friends around me."
(Financial Times)
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Poet Will Harris: ‘The trait I find most irritating in others? An excessive love of fascism’

The writer on mentors, his Tubby Custard obsession and free will

www.ft.com

Report: "...the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years."
(LitHub)
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Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.

Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 y...

lithub.com

Essay: "How do you see the person you’ve lived with for decades as if for the first time? How do you make the 10,000th kiss romantic and new?"
(Oprah Daily)
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How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad Rhymes)

The poet and author of Skeletons shares her tips for a writing a love poem—as well as some surprises.

www.oprahdaily.com

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