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Eve Studies Cezanne’s The Basket of Apples

Carolyn Oliver

Temptation's lesson says: choose the uncontested one, pear-shaped, alone, red creeping along its side the way a blush steals over a man's cheeks when he comes.

from the book Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble / The University of Utah Press

Review: "Elhillo’s poems often train their gaze on some half-shrouded point behind them, less concerned with finding their way back than describing the fog."
(The Nation)
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/safia-elhillo-girls-never-die/

Essay: "For me, as for many who also love Brodak, the first point of connection was the poem she named after herself."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/considering-the-poetry-of-molly-brodak-and-the-ache-of-the-unknowable-world/

Review: "What makes her work required reading is her readiness... to do the terrifying work of visualising the future."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/27/to-the-last-be-human-by-jorie-graham-review-where-angels-fear-to-write?CMP=share_btn_tw

Essay: "This is the center of Wong’s project: to make suffering, which is always contemporary, palpable again by scraping off the accumulated chinoiserie."—Noah Warren
(Astra Mag)
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https://astra-mag.com/articles/enter-the-tang-chat/

Conversation: "I find poetry — which estranges me from language, the most ordinary medium of my life — to be a useful practice for unsettling my perception..."—Claire Schwartz
(LARB)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-interrogative-stance-a-conversation-with-claire-schwartz/

Review: "Xie’s lines have an unmooring effect: She slyly dissects images and concepts, rearranging the landmarks of the mind."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/books/jenny-xie-the-rupture-tense-poetry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Essay: "The French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape of Europe, but the young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind that transformed our world forever."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/how-a-group-of-young-writers-and-poets-revolutionized-18th-century-literature/

Interview: "As I was thinking about writing these poems, I was thinking about Seattle and all its lushness."—Luther Hughes
(The Seattle Times)
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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-poet-luther-hughes-on-a-shiver-in-the-leaves-his-debut-collection/

Announcement: "The Poetry Foundation announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows..."
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/158671/poetry-foundation-announces-the-2022-ruth-lilly-dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellows

Essay: "Berrigan’s poems are paced like the films of the New Wave, and they’re at least as funny."—Jordan Davis
(Poetry Foundation)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158608/what-do-i-say-next-fast

What Sparks Poetry

Translation

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.

In our series focused on Translation, we invite poet-translators to share seminal experiences in their practices, bringing poems from one language into another. How does the work of translating feel essential to the writing of one’s own poetry? Our contributors reflect on inspiring moments as intricate as a grammatical quirk and as wide-ranging as the history or politics of another place.

This week's issue: Robin Myers on Javier Peñalosa M.’s “The Crane”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

October 1, 2022

Mourning Problems

Xi Chuan (translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein)

the vast sea dies, and you will have to die the dragon king dies, and you will have to die the moon doesn't mourn, there's no one on the moon the stars don't mourn, the stars aren't flesh and blood

September 30, 2022

Mercy Me

Corrie Williamson

You could say and not lie that this is most of what I long for in the way of distance and the way of desire: may the fetters fall from all of us this year. May the wild light get way down in our bones. May we without requital, mercy one another with hands like wings, with unarmed hands.

September 29, 2022

How?

Lim Solah (translated from the Korean by Olan Munson & Oh Eunkyung)

Again I clasp the broken watch on my wrist and put on the flower print dress. I flop down into a flower garden flowerless.

September 28, 2022

Skeleton Rules

Kylie Gellatly

A Collage Poem with Sources from Cookbooks.

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