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Tag: poetry
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How Words Cast Their Spell on a Poet
Geoffrey O’Brien explores language’s magic — part sound, part sense, part bodily sensation.
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A Poet Defends the Earth
Susan Barba’s poems are both environmental plea and protest, at once personal and broad.
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Bernadette Mayer Evokes the Banality and Urgency of the Quotidian
In Memory, the poet shapes a new visual and textual language that explores the simmering possibilities of consciousness.
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Queer Art Workers Reflect: Anaïs Duplan On “Becoming a Better Lover”—Not Just in a Romantic Sense
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
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On the Figurative Road
Alice Notley’s book-length poem charts the journey during which we assess the value of words and their historical contexts.
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The Fertilizing Power of Funk
Fred Moten’s innovative poems investigate the fugitive philosophy of Black sound.
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Wanda Coleman, the Great Poet of Los Angeles
Coleman not only embraces her multitudes, but changes effortlessly from one persona and voice to another — things she needed to do in order to survive as a single Black mother raising two children in Los Angeles.
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Susan Howe’s Feminist Poetics
Throughout her work and in her latest volume, Concordance, Howe confronts the plight of the female writer in a masculine literary culture.
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John Chamberlain’s Previously Unknown Poems From Black Mountain College
Here’s a sneak peek of the artist’s previously unknown writings from 1955, to be published by Princeton University Press this month.
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Stéphane Mallarmé Created an Ideal Book Never Meant to Be Published
The French poet juxtaposed the details of printing and production in a book that he imagined as a theatrical production.
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Puzzling Out the Gap Between Communication and Meaning
Sid Gold’s poems address our failure to hear what others are saying.