Poets & Writers

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I just finished reading Jay Baron Nicorvo’s essay “Why We Write: The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief” (January/February 2018), and I am so happy you chose to publish it. When I published my first book of poetry, The Silence of Men, released by Cava

Writing Magazine

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I don’t know any poets who write a poem exactly formed. In all my long years of writing I have only once had a poem arrive swiftly – a gift as I think of it. I So, how do you begin your poems? Some of you perhaps start with a title and some of you mi

NPR

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Poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher presents his annual roundup of the poetry he's looking forward to. This year, he's showcasing a group of poets who he says are holding the darkness at bay.

Poets & Writers

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FOR our fifteenth annual look at debut poetry, we chose ten poets whose first books struck us with their formal imagination, distinctive language, and deep attention to the world. The books, all published in 2019, inhabit a range of poetic modes. The

The Christian Science Monitor

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A 1395 translation of the Bible demonstrates that the word 'sad' didn’t mean what it does now.

The Paris Review

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This year, The Paris Review will engage in an exciting mission to expand its reaches through the world of poetry. For each of our next four issues, our editor, Emily Nemens, will work in tandem with four quite different, highly esteemed poets to find

Poets & Writers

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“Poetry can change your life, and it doesn’t happen on the page; it happens in the rooms and places where poetry connects you to people who change how you are in the world,” says Megan Burns, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.

Writer's Digest

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Every year, I am delighted by the new crop of poems I get to read for the Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards. Then, I’m faced with the hard work of figuring out which poem rises above the others. It’s no simple task to rank one poem above another, especia

Scoop

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Where do you like to write? Anywhere outdoors. Nature is calming and peaceful so it’s easier to really concentrate, but at the same time it’s inspiring. Last year at the Betjeman Poetry Camp we spent five days living in tents in the grounds of Wadde

Psychologies

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• Ask family and friends to share poems, quotes and lyrics that have consoled them during difficult periods. • Get a virtual consultation at the UK’s first Poetry Pharmacy in Bishops Castle, Shropshire. A poet will ‘prescribe’ a poem just for you. po

Writing Magazine

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£150 TO BE WON EVERY MONTH It’s 100 years since the death of John Keats, so we’re asking you to commemorate him with a poem inspired by any aspect of his life and work Spread some joy with the April poetry comp, as we ask you to write a humorous poem

Scoop

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? The criteria was ‘place’ and the first thing that came to my mind was home. Home to me means many things one of which is Scotland, which is where I have lived all my life. So I decided to b

India Today

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He is too shy to tell that his lyrics have become so popular that even young Pakistanis are humming them and uploading them on YouTube. Most questions put to this 27-year-old, who recently received the prestigious Yuva Sangeet Natak Akademi for his

Poets & Writers

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BY DANA ISOKAWA THE TEN poetry collections featured in our thirteenth annual roundup of debut poets offer a glimpse of the wide range of contemporary poetry. Each of the books, published in 2017, shows just how much poetry can do. Eve L. Ewing’s Elec

Poets & Writers

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Edited by Elizabeth J. Coleman, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, April) features poems that address climate change and environmental degradation along with a guide to environmental activism written by the Union of Concerned Scientists

Poets & Writers

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In his third poetry collection, As One Fire Consumes Another, forthcoming from Orison Books in April, John Sibley Williams confronts the violent side of American history and its effect on our notions of self, fatherhood, and citizenship. “The poems s

Literary Hub

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Stanley Plumly, poet and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, died on Thursday, April 11, 2019 of multiple myeloma at the age of 79. He was the author of ten poetry collections, including Old Heart (2007), winner of the Los Angeles Tim

North & South

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This is a technically dazzling collection of poems, most of them short, all of them showing care and conviction. Take, for instance, the three found poems. Finding poems is not difficult – all those shopping lists other people leave in their trolleys

Scoop

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? I just thought about writing something not overly complex or intricate because poetry generally doesn’t have a plot. I also believed that writing something humorous would add to the competi

Literary Hub

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In the first of a series looking at the work being done at writing and artists’ residences across America (and beyond!), we’re checking in with the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York (about two hours north of NYC). We asked several recent

Writing Magazine

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Isele Magazine has a team of editors who believe ‘that literature and the arts are an integral part of the daily conversations that uplift and/or shape our thinking’. So they ‘publish writers and artists who hold a mirror to our society, who challeng

Poets & Writers

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The Song Cave I was never here. I’m not coming back. I’m at sea. —from “Crystal Radio” HOW IT BEGAN: This book is a collection of mostly discrete poems that I wrote in graduate school (a handful were written in the time before and after). I never set

Poets & Writers

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the closest men become is when they are covered in blood or nothing at all—from “Naked” HOW IT BEGAN: It started with the body. The learning of desire prompted many of the poems in the early versions of the manuscript. My life shifted when I moved ba

The American Poetry Review

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“Likenesses is an origin myth, in that it attempts to create the world by naming it. But it’s too late in the game to imagine that whatever is named could simply be, without at the same time being—becoming—something else. Or many somethings elses…. I

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym

Poets & Writers

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Age: Sixty-four. Residence: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Book:Ground, Wind, This Body (University of New Mexico Press, March), a poetry collection exploring the vestiges of war and redemption as a traumatized soldier returns home from WWII carrying a leg

Writing Magazine

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Prizes are £600, £300 and £150 in the Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2021. Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. There is also a special £150 prize for the best sonnet submitted. Winners and shortlisted entries will be published in an

New Zealand Listener

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The sense of writing for Elena Ferrante – and of all the struggles it involves – has to do with “the satisfaction of staying beau-tifully within the margins and, at the same time, with the impression of loss, of waste, because of that success”. IN TH

Writer's Digest

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The huitain is a French poetic form that is quite musical when done well. Here are the basic rules: • Eight lines per poem (or stanza)• Eight to 10 syllables per line (but consistent within the poem)• Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc Here are a couple of examp

Texas Highways Magazine

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The songster, reciter, storyteller, and collector of cowboy songs and poems wrote about the cowboy poetry tradition for “From Hide and Horn” (Page 82). Hedges grew up in the small Panhandle community of Tokio where he fell in love with cowboy music l