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Poetry

Short Fuse Podcast #53: Gwendolyn Brooks — A Poet’s Work in the Community

Nic Caldwell talks with Elizabeth Howard about poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her work, and the recent acquisition of her personal papers for the Morgan Library and Museum collection and the exhibition he curated.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Books, Featured, Podcast Tagged: Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet's Work in the Community, Morgan Library and Museum, Nic Caldwell, Podcast, Poetry

Poetry Review: “Continuous Creation” — A Farewell from a Grand Old Man of Australian Verse

Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Continuous Creation, Les Murray, Poetry

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

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

By: Henry Chandonnet Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Henry Chandonnet, Ocean Vuong, Poetry, Time is a Mother

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

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

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Carolynn Kingyens, Coupling, Ed Meek, Poetry

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

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

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Television Tagged: Elisa New, Poetry, Poetry in America, WGBH

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

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.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Louise Glück, Poetry, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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

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!

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: African poetry, Alain Mabanckou, As Long As Trees Take Root in The Earth, Kai Maristed, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Poetry

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

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

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jim Kates, on the way: new and selected poems, Poetry, Ruth Lepson

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

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

By: Nancy Naomi Carlson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Acrobat, Archipelago Press, Archipelago-Books, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Poetry

Short Fuse Podcast #43: What is Poetry For?

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.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Books, Featured, Podcast Tagged: amanda gorman, arts, bowery pots, brooklyn rail, danspace, Donald Hall, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Howard, Kyle Ducayan, Literary criticism, on being, pen america, Performance Art, Poems, Poetry, poetry foundation of america, poetry in motion, poetry performance, poetry podcast, poetry project, Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, poetry reading, poetry unbound, poetry underground, poets, poets on instagram, poets' house, Sewanee, slam poetry, st.Mark's, T.S. Eliot, The New Yorker, the paris review, Turtle Point Press, ugly duckling press

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