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August 28, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer a... -
August 21, 2015 |
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte... -
June 26, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine featured a debate sure to spark interest in readers. The article asked whether or not it was acceptable to write in books as part of interacting wi...
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June 12, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the poet laureate of the United States this week. Herrera is the first Latino poet to receive this honor. Herrera also...
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It did not weep
did not plead for mercy
nor complain.
It fell silently,
the tree.
~~~
My hands,
yellow as...
Leading up to the COP26 conference, in September 2021 several hundred protesters met in London’s Parliament Square before marching to the Home...
Jean Giono at his home, Le Paraïs, in Manosque, France, 1942 / Photo by André Zucca / Courtesy Les Amis de Jean Giono
Written late in...
