Essay: "[Šalamun] was told that he’d spend twelve years in prison, but due to international pressure, was released from prison after only five days."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/to-become-a-poet-is-to-step-into-the-void-ilya-kaminsky-on-slovenian-poet-tomaz-salamun/

Report: "In a significant shake up, Penguin Random House, the largest publishing house in the United States, announced on Monday that the publishers of two of its most prestigious literary imprints had been let go."
(NYT)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/books/booksupdate/knopf-doubleday-lisa-lucas-reagan-arthur.html

Interview: "I am not afraid of all the harder emotions or mental health things that we can experience. I just think of myself as being a human being that has constant challenges ... I am trying to figure these things out."
(The Brooklyn Rail)
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https://brooklynrail.org/2024/05/books/Victoria-Chang-with-Mandana-Chaffa

Conversation: "Since I came out of a queer anarchist subculture, the zine was a very natural form to gravitate toward ... You’re just writing in a very immediate way. It kind of fit with my very fast pace of living."
(The Rumpus)
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https://therumpus.net/2024/04/29/jackie-wang/

Conversation: "I like to think of that anterior silence as potential energy...I’ve come to realize that the alternative is withholding, and as a writer that feels worse than a poem that approximates what I imagined."
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/callie-siskel

Interview: "For me, mythology is inseparable from morality. It’s inseparable from the social rules of the world and intergenerational relationships."
(Electric Lit)
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https://electricliterature.com/k-ming-chang-interview-book/

Report: "'Tripas'...is a collection that deeply engages the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family’s working lives creating community rather than conflict.”
(Athen Banner Herald)
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https://www.onlineathens.com/story/entertainment/books/2024/05/07/poetry-published-by-ugas-georgia-review-wins-2024-pulitzer-prize/73597145007/

Conversation: "It felt powerful to understand in a therapeutic session that what was haunting me was not myself."
(Los Angeles Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-was-haunting-me-was-not-myself-a-conversation-with-morgan-parker/

Report: "One of Ireland’s leading poetry publishers moves into a new home in an old pub in north Clare this weekend..."
(The Irish Times)
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https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/05/11/poetry-not-pints-as-old-pub-a-new-home-for-publishers-after-fundraising-campaign/

Essay: "What is obvious from the letters and the poetry is that the minor key was only one of many modes for Dickinson."
(The Spectator)
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/emily-dickinson-was-not-such-a-recluse-after-all/