Poetry

Poetry Review: “Time Is a Mother” – Grieving through Language

April 17, 2022
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Ocean Vuong’s new collection of poetry is a dazzling investigation of love and loss, inspiring both nostalgia and release.

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Poetry Review: Carolynn Kingyens’s “Coupling” — Art as a Means of Survival

February 5, 2022
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In this collection, Carolynn Kingyens discloses what lies behind the veneer of our relationships.

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Television Interview: “Poetry in America” Host Elisa New — “Poetry is in all of us”

January 21, 2022
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Viewers are drawn into an active, immersive experience watching the series. They come away with the feeling that poetry is in them.

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Poetry Review: “Winter Recipes From the Collective” — Louise Glück’s Cold Comfort

December 21, 2021
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The poems in Winter Recipes from the Collective are about bearing with life in a barren place; they do the kind of singing Bertolt Brecht said was necessary when dealing with “the dark times.”

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Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in Stride

November 30, 2021
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Take a dive into any of Alain Mabanckou’s works in English — and definitely score a copy of the new translation, As Long As Trees Take Root In the Earth, beautifully crafted and bound. Vive la Poesie!

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Poetry Review: Ruth Lepson’s “on the way” — Basking in the Glow

October 28, 2021
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.

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Poetry Review: “Acrobat” — The Beautiful Bengali Poetry of Nabaneeta Dev Sen 

September 26, 2021
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Translator Nandana Dev Sen has opened a window for us to savor Bengali women’s poetry through these lovingly translated poems of her mother.

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Short Fuse Podcast #43: What is Poetry For?

August 17, 2021
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.

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Poetry Review: Maureen N. McLane’s “More Anon” — Lots of Existential Fun

July 29, 2021
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Her poems are sassy.

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Poetry Review: Marcia Karp’s “If By Song” — Verse Passionate and Unruly

May 20, 2021
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This is a volume filled with complex pleasures and pains, assembled with purpose.

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