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Jamaican writer and academic Jason Allen-Paisant wins the UK's most prestigious award for poetry.
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If you’ve heard about Robert Pinsky in the past fifty years—about something other than his poems “Shirt” or “Samurai Song” or his translation of Dante’s Inferno, about something other than his three-term position as Poet Laureate during which he founded the Favorite Poem Project—you’ve probably...
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From verse about Columbus Day to trying to masturbate on election night — these poems have range.
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Richard Wilbur’s capacity for wonder wasn’t always fashionable. But it was always urgently necessary — and still is, perhaps now more than ever.
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Christian Wiman is the former editor of Poetry magazine and the author, most recently, of ‘Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems.’
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How to read the most famous poem “for ever.”
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John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But at each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his own distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit. In the case of the English ode he brought its form, in the five great odes of 1819, to its most perfect definition.
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In the April 28th, 1963 edition of the New York Times Book Review, James Dickey—the author of Deliverance, and a poet who would be named the United States Poet
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Jonathan Farmers interviews Gabrielle Calvocoressi about her new collection, "Rocket Fantastic."
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One of the most influential American poets of his generation admired for his unorthodox use of language
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With “Losing our Milk Teeth,” the opening poem of Patricia Colleen Murphy’s award-winning collection, Hemming Flames, the author announces from the outset that we’re in for a thrilling ride—thrilling as in thriller as much as the acute pleasure of reading masterful poems. Hemming Flames is by turns terrifying, uncanny, and sometimes lunatic, in the ways lunacy charts (if it does chart anything) the unpredictable and uncanny. There is also a wry and blunt humor here, a consciousness latching onto what will carry it through the traumas of an imploding family.
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Editors at the Book Review recommend poets who might be flying under your radar.
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Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during his last, itinerant years.
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Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, who founded Cave Canem, at this year’s retreat. Photo credit: Morgan Maben/Cave Canem
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Sho Sugita and I met in graduate school at Brooklyn College, where he was studying poetry, and I was in the playwriting program. Years bulleted, beelined by us, wa
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BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.
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Raúl Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated poets. His works include the classics Purgatorio (1979), Anteparaíso (1982), La vida nueva (1994), and INRI (2003). In 2007 he published two new collections: Las ciudades de agua and Zurita/In Memoriam. Zurita has been awarded the Premio Pablo Neruda, the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Santiago and teaches literature at the Universidad Diego Portales.
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Night Sky With Exit Wounds, the debut collection by a poet who is the first literate person in his family, hailed as ‘the definitive arrival of a significant voice’
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The poet shows how reality and imagination can become one.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he inspired a brilliant generation of writers and attracted the patronage of progressive men of the rising middle class. As William Wordsworth’s collaborator and constant companion in the formative period of their careers as poets, Coleridge participated in the sea change in English verse associated with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His poems of this period, speculative, meditative, and strangely oracular, put off early readers but survived the doubts of Wordsworth and Robert Southey to become recognized classics of the romantic idiom.
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“Please come flying,” Elizabeth Bishop pleads with Marianne Moore, in her poem "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore" (1955), “above the accidents, above the malignant movies, / the taxicabs and injustices at large.” This will—passed between two poets and friends—to alight from the predictable rhythms of crimes made regular, enmediated, and immense is an appealing one.
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Stephanie Burt reviews recent collections by Rosa Alcalá, Chrstopher Kempf, Anthony Madrid, Shane McCrae and Erin Moure.
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The collected poems in “Half-Light,” long-listed for the National Book Award, let readers trace the evolution of a sophisticated modern master.
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What is the impact of racism on those who perpetuate it? Three white poets explore and confront the implicit ways racism is bound up in the daily transactions, judgments, and assumptions of their everyday lives.
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Ishion Hutchinson’s remembrance of a poet he knew and of his influence.
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