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Still Life When All Our Symptoms Seem to Have Symptoms of Their Own

Julia Guez

the dark is very dark on the night-side of things, long is very long.

from the book The Certain Body / Four Way Books

Announcement: Ama Codjoe and Tommye Blount have been awarded 2023 Whiting Awards for Poetry.
(NPR)
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2023 Whiting Awards recognize 10 emerging writers

The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which was announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent ...

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Review: Jeevika Verma reviews Clint Smith's new collection of poems for NPR.
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In 'Above Ground,' Clint Smith meditates on a changing world, personal and public

Smith's poems reveal that his wonder at the world keeps him holding on to faith in the way the universe works....

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Essay: "Mayer swings like a human wrecking ball at just about every literary truism, received binary, and easy contradiction that she encounters."
(The Yale Review)
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Daniel Poppick: "Nothing is a Memory"

On Milkweed Smithereens and the life of Bernadette Mayer.

yalereview.org

Conversation: "What makes a hope a world-opening, powerful force is fighting to show up to it again and again, despite all the signs that things are hopeless."
(Washington Square)
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https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/online-features/2023/3/20/on-hope-mystery-and-friendship-an-interview-with-franny-choi

Review: "...Amparán’s work is musically and rhythmically delicate..."
(RHINO)
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https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews/brother-sleep-by-aldo-amparn

Announcement: Cynthia Cruz has been awarded the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
(NBCC)
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Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners - National Book Critics Circle

New York, NY (March 23, 2023)—Tonight at the New School, the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipien...

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Interview: "Can I be both artful and honest? Can I pin some lasting vestige of myself, like a dead butterfly, onto the page?"—Diane Seuss
(Tupelo Quarterly)
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"I Had a Kinetic Feeling": A Micro-Interview with Diane Seuss - curated by Lisa Olstein

Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. She earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from...

www.tupeloquarterly.com

Announcement: PEN America has named the winner of the 2023 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
(PEN America)
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PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection

The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given to a poet whose distinguished work to date represents a notable and a...

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Review: "And so I must say, everything about this collection explodes..."
(Ark Int)
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https://www.arkint.org/reviews/meltwater-capsule-review

What Sparks Poetry

Ecopoetry Now

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems.

In Ecopoetry Now, invited poets engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders. In poems and poetics statements, their work describes important local differences, including bioregion and language, as well as a shared concern for the Earth. We hope to highlight poetry’s integral role in creating and sustaining a broadly ecological imagination that is most alive when biologically, culturally, and linguistically diverse.

This week's issue: Chris Dombrowski on “Just a little green, like the nights when the northern lights perform”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

March 30, 2023

A History of Clouds

Christopher Brean Murray

Somewhere Rilke speaks of "vast, ruined kingdoms of cloud." That from the love letter of another exiled prince.

March 29, 2023

Bitterness Is the Chinese Root of Emotional Hurt

Emily Lee Luan

A sadness held in the mouth. Is this Savor my ceaseless condition? If so, I’m Sick with it. Pull out my molars. Make of me a simpler O.

March 28, 2023

Vexations (excerpt)

Annelyse Gelman

The dominant metaphor for the body was the engine The dominant metaphor for the city was the body The dominant metaphor for identity was consumption Sometimes a brain got too big, holes had to be drilled To make room, I committed the first page of the economics textbook to memory People always want more, no matter how much they have already

March 27, 2023

Just a little green, like the nights when the northern lights perform

Chris Dombrowski

grip, so much like this white cloud that eludes the branches’ grasp before lofting west: the wind- blown work of her hands—long-traveled, adrift from parts celestial, a word I haven’t quite relinquished.

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