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To the Tune of “Meeting Happiness”

Li Yu (translated from the Chinese by Arthur Sze)

it is the sorrow of parting, another strange flavor in the heart.

from the book The Silk Dragon II / Copper Canyon Press

Report: "'Tripas'...is a collection that deeply engages the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family’s working lives creating community rather than conflict.”
(Athen Banner Herald)
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https://www.onlineathens.com/story/entertainment/books/2024/05/07/poetry-published-by-ugas-georgia-review-wins-2024-pulitzer-prize/73597145007/

Conversation: "It felt powerful to understand in a therapeutic session that what was haunting me was not myself."
(Los Angeles Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-was-haunting-me-was-not-myself-a-conversation-with-morgan-parker/

Report: "One of Ireland’s leading poetry publishers moves into a new home in an old pub in north Clare this weekend..."
(The Irish Times)
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https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/05/11/poetry-not-pints-as-old-pub-a-new-home-for-publishers-after-fundraising-campaign/

Essay: "What is obvious from the letters and the poetry is that the minor key was only one of many modes for Dickinson."
(The Spectator)
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/emily-dickinson-was-not-such-a-recluse-after-all/

Interview: "The first step, I think, is to question our place in the world in relation to other species."
(WLT)
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https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/may/8-questions-isabel-zapata-michelle-johnson

Profile: "Within the first 10 minutes of meeting Bianca Stone, we’re talking about dreams and the subconscious..."
(Times Argus)
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https://www.timesargus.com/news/local/bianca-stone-carries-on-a-legacy-of-writing-as-vermont-poet-laureate/article_32aaead1-508c-54be-8998-5de8a262dc25.html

Essay: "Athens, where I have spent much of my adult life, is home to a Byron Street, and a neighbourhood, Vyronas, also named after the poet."
(Telegraph)
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/why-byrons-a-punchline-in-britain-yet-a-god-in-greece/

Essay: "When an old friend asked me recently if I didn’t find the idea of 'the speaker' to be somewhat underexamined, I was surprised by the force of the YES that rose up in me."
(NYT)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/books/review/on-poetry-who-is-the-speaker.html

Conversation: "I was interested in what lingers, what remains, how each living person is a remnant, fragment of an impossible whole (family, diaspora, and so on)."
(International Examiner)
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https://iexaminer.org/poet-diana-khoi-nguyen-shares-about-her-new-collection-root-fractures-and-its-alternative-family-histories/

Essay: "Oftentimes, a reader asks what it’s like to publish a memoir with family members in it. How do you seek permission? What do you do when someone in your family protests your storytelling?"
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/on-memoir-permission-and-the-thorny-terrain-of-writing-about-family/

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: Evelyn Reilly on “Having Broken, Are”

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I ignore the kids' slinky arms. The dishes. They daddy. Tonight I rush to the rink with my best friend, her fingers locked into mine. The sun dipped already, but we sweating, edges ribboned under summer's breath. I forget to take pictures, but trust. We fine.

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Grievance

Morri Creech

I have betrayed it to the dark when there was no one to blame and whispered it seductively into the ear of danger. But I am tired, and I want to be done with it for good.

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Residue Guidelines

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I feared young dying, hating to waste, but lately when I cough or clot blood I register this potential as passed, my age now emblem of having aged: nothing to be envious of, nothing to revere.

May 13, 2024

Having Broken, Are

Evelyn Reilly

Having been brainwashed as children we must suspect ourselves always Dogged associations such as a clearing in the woods closing at the rate of your own aging Your arbitrary name-sound wobbling in the same breeze that makes it impossible to turn over a new leaf definitively You can only step into the fray

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