Review: "...the poems in his first collection meditate on evanescent California immigrant dreams."
(LARB)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-formality-of-nostalgia-on-boris-dralyuks-my-hollywood-and-other-poems/
Announcement: "Michael Longley has received one of the major European poetry prizes, the 2022 Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry, awarded every five years by the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome."
(Irish Times)
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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2022/06/30/michael-longley-wins-250000-feltrinelli-poetry-prize-and-ian-duhig-wins-hawthornden-prize/
Conversation: "Most of the time when I’m writing, sound comes unconsciously, but that doesn’t mean it’s a natural skill."—Mark Kyungsoo Bias
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/mark-kyungsoo-bias-on-how-hip-hop-influences-his-poetry/
Review: "Still, it’s easy to become an Auden completist."
(The Washington Post)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/29/michael-dirda-auden/
Report: "The place has been put together with such elegant simplicity that... this one never fails to evoke a sense of presence with the beating pulse of Keats’s poetry."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jun/28/the-beating-pulse-of-poetry-why-you-should-visit-keats-house
Essay: "It was in this poem in 1789 that he first touched on heavily concealed concepts of biological evolution."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/how-myth-and-poetry-helped-us-unlock-the-mysteries-of-photosynthesis/
Review: "Kelly builds capacious, energetic structures to hold language as it emerges from the most devastating wounds of human experience."—Kiki Petrosino
(Poetry Society of America)
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https://poetrysociety.org/features/the-poets-nightstand/the-poets-nightstand-with-kiki-petrosino
Essay: "Larkin has always been my man and I hate the thought that others might not find him as I did."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/25/philip-larkin-profound-and-beautiful-poetry-sent-me-back-to-the-classroom
Profile: "So here’s Jennifer in the middle, here’s this past self that I’m trying to figure out what to do with, and then here’s this like poet self that is somehow less than me, but more than me at the same time."—Jennifer Espinoza
(Observer)
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https://observer.com/2022/06/pride-spotlight-jennifer-espinozas-poetry-creates-a-world-where-every-trans-person-is-safe/
Obituary: "Baxter Black, the country’s best-known cowboy poet... died on June 10 at his home, a ranch outside Benson, Ariz. He was 77."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/arts/baxter-black-dead.html
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