Gorman, the youngest poet to ever perform at a US presidential inauguration, moved audiences across the nation with her perspective on a country “striving to forge a union with purpose.”
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Did You Know That Robert Hershon Is a Major Poet?
I cannot think of another contemporary poet who is willing to expose his vulnerability, worry, and pettiness through the lens of humor.
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Missives From the War to End All Wars
Elizabeth Gray’s poems seek to discover where we are in the midst of a battle we can never fully see.
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This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020
John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.
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This Anthology of Trans Poetics Channels a Spirit of Dissent
We Want It All positions poetry as an everyday weapon, formidable against the cruel mundane.
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Poems of Spiritual Quest and Musical Yearning
Joseph Donahue’s verse is rarely melodramatic, but rather humane and temperate, even when the insights are startling.
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Poems About the Business of Being a Poet
Kent Johnson skewers the silliness of the swarming poetry world.
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Collage and Poetry as Social Document
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s work illuminates connections between poetic expression and public accountability.
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Marcella Durand’s Apocalyptic Pastoral
Durand’s urban environment in The Prospect is a source not of solace but of anxiety.
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Poetry in the Time of a Pandemic
Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS amounts to a diary of what it is to be alive in the midst of a pandemic and a growing demand for racial justice.
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Artist-Activist Yves B. Golden on Honoring the “Spirit of Black/Trans Resilience”
Golden’s work as an artist and organizer has always centered care to envision an equitable world.
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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.