Profile: "When Kevin Young ’92 came to Harvard as an undergraduate, he dreamed of becoming a poet."
(Harvard Gazette)
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/acclaimed-poet-receives-arts-medal/
Retrospective: "Again, I half suspected Jerry thought he’d be writing my eulogy before I had to write his."
(Jacket2)
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https://jacket2.org/commentary/jerome-rothenberg-december-11-1931-%E2%80%93-april-21-2024
Essay: "...most Shakespeare fans have rarely met an adaptive concept they didn’t like."
(JSTOR)
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https://daily.jstor.org/shakespeare-and-fanfiction/
Interview: "The letters that have moved me are letters from older writers who never knew that writing was possible, and they wrote their first poem and wanted me to see it."
(P&W)
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https://www.pw.org/content/qa_maldonado_leads_the_academy
Interview: "The art that I really care about is the art that I carry with me into the future."
(Adroit)
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https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-nine/a-conversation-with-annelyse-gelman/
Essay: "In Gawain we encounter the terrifying prospect that our civilized places are vulnerable to total annihilation."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/what-medieval-poets-can-teach-us-about-climate-change-and-what-evangelicals-today-get-wrong/
Obituary: Helen Vendler has passed away at age 90.
(Boston Globe)
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/metro/helen-vendler-towering-presence-poetry-criticism-dies-90/
Announcement: "PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony..."
(PW)
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94876-pen-america-cancels-2024-literary-awards-ceremony.html
Report: "For National Poetry Month, Oregon's poet laureate is bringing... to the public... a daily poetry hotline."
(NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244478709/call-this-hotline-to-listen-to-a-new-poem-each-day-for-national-poetry-month
Conversation: "I love the unexpected revelation—that which offers itself in a quiet moment, buried in the middle of the poem."
(The Rumpus)
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https://therumpus.net/2024/04/15/sarah-ghazal-ali/
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