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Douglas Kearney’s Poetry of Performance

by Mark Scroggins May 22, 2021May 27, 2021

Kearney’s language — exquisitely torqued and modulated, sheering from the formal to the vernacular — reminds us that we are in the hands of a masterful performer.

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Don Mee Choi’s Language of History

by Mark Scroggins February 13, 2021February 12, 2021

Just as collage artists might paste a scrap of newsprint or a piece of rattan chair-bottom to their canvas, documentary poets form their poetic work from public records, firsthand accounts, and newspaper reports.

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Two Poets Search for Home

by Mark Scroggins April 11, 2020April 10, 2020

In their latest volumes, poets Youmna Chlala and Chris Nealon confront the notion of home and the emotional challenges of our own tentative, pre- or post-apocalyptic moment.

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When a Poet Becomes Invisible

by John Yau September 7, 2019September 6, 2019

Facing her mortality, Mary Ruefle does not ask for pity or sympathy, because death is democratic.

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Constructing the Language We Breathe

by Barry Schwabsky May 12, 2019May 10, 2019

For half a century, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop have been (despite some serious competition) the most reliable conduit for poetry traveling from French and German into English.

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Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem

by Barry Schwabsky September 8, 2018September 7, 2018

Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.

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Urban Poems of Yearning and Heartbreak

by Stan Mir January 7, 2018January 6, 2018

John Godfrey’s poems are like pointillistic patterns more than traditional narratives, suggesting an attitude over a story.

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Working at the Threshold of Prose

by Thom Donovan December 17, 2017December 20, 2017

Renee Gladman investigates the moments when writing crosses over into another mode of expression.

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Drawings that Trace the Contours of Thought

by Iris Cushing August 28, 2017August 25, 2017

Renee Gladman’s drawings in Prose Architectures resemble not-quite-legible script, registering somewhere on the visual spectrum between image and language.

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Mary Ruefle’s Sage Advice on How to Keep Your Eyes Open While Sleeping

by John Yau July 23, 2017July 23, 2017

This is a book you want to read slowly, to savor both for what it says and how Ruefle says it.

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A Collection of Poetry Interviews Is a Work of Poetry Itself

by Michael Valinsky July 22, 2017July 21, 2017

Modern poets talk about the Poetry Project, a vital forum in which political ideologies fueled exchanges and spurred literary movements.

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In Its Own Faint Language: On Don Mee Choi’s ‘Hardly War’

by Mary-Kim Arnold February 11, 2017February 10, 2017

Four million people (mostly civilian) were killed in the three years of the Korean War, and it is estimated that a million more Koreans were displaced in its aftermath, but here in the United States, the war is frequently referred to as “forgotten.”

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