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How Amanda Gorman’s Poetry Roused a “Country That Is Bruised but Whole”

by danilo machado January 21, 2021January 21, 2021

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?

by John Yau January 9, 2021January 8, 2021

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

by Joseph Donahue January 9, 2021January 8, 2021

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

by Albert Mobilio and John Yau December 26, 2020January 8, 2021

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

by Keenan Teddy Smith December 25, 2020December 28, 2020

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

by Rachel DuPlessis December 12, 2020December 11, 2020

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

by Jon Curley November 21, 2020November 23, 2020

Kent Johnson skewers the silliness of the swarming poetry world.

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Collage and Poetry as Social Document

by Andrew Mossin October 17, 2020November 5, 2020

Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s work illuminates connections between poetic expression and public accountability.

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Marcella Durand’s Apocalyptic Pastoral

by Mark Scroggins October 10, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by John Yau October 10, 2020November 5, 2020

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”

by Camila McHugh October 8, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Norman Finkelstein August 15, 2020November 5, 2020

Geoffrey O’Brien explores language’s magic — part sound, part sense, part bodily sensation.

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