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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.
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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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Two Poems on Liberation by Rosamond S. King
Rosamond S. King, a Brooklyn-based poet, is a TriniGambianAmerican, has been publishing poetry since 1994, and won a Lamda Literary Award in 2018.
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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.