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Okay I'll Call You / Yes Call Me: Frank O'Hara's "Personism"Poet and critic Stephanie Burt takes on Frank O’Hara’s notable style of casual, personable poetics in this examination of what she calls the poet’s “Personism.”

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Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

Reading Environments by John Lee Clark | Poetry FoundationEach month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. John Lee Clark’s poems “I Promise You,” “A DeafBlind Poet,” “The Diagnosis,” “The Rebuttal,” and “The Culmination,” appear in the October 2018 issue. Previous posts...

Stunt Double by Tomás Q. Morín | Poetry MagazineIn this life, there are stars

Poetry in the Expanded Field An unclassifiable artist and a deep reader, Jen Bervin has expanded the notion of what it is to be a poet in the 21st century.

Mapping Poetry onto the Visual Arts — Impossible objects

Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience | Aeon EssaysMachine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art

From quilted fabric covers to hand-embroidered pages to laser-cut illustrations, the designs for this year’s Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest submissions express their makers’ points of view in unique and thought-provoking ways. The contest, hosted by Special Collections at the Fleet Library, aims to promote engagement with the book arts and expand the library’s growing artists’ book collection. While only four of the winning books will become part of the library’s permanent collection, all 68 entries will be displayed in the library through mid-May.

Jacob Davidson took home the New England Chapter Purchase Prize for Wolves, a short story inspired by the cultural history of the artist’s ancestors.

Special Collections Librarian Claudia Covert, who has overseen the contest since 2005, notes that the number of submissions received this year far outweighs the average of 45 entries per year. “With so many entries, it is hard to exhibit them all in our first-floor and balcony cases,” she says. Covert was moved by the wide variety of materials used in the pieces, including bricks and glass.

The juror for this year’s contest was artist Andre Lee Bassuet, who announced the winners at an awards ceremony in late February. Bassuet’s work explores the body, nature and memory through her lens as an artist raised in both South Korea and the US. Currently, she teaches bookbinding and printmaking at AS220 in Providence.

First-year student Danielle Kim was awarded the Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize for 100 Days for Birth, a story about the migration of humpback whales from Hawaii to California.

How to Tame a Jaguar, a story reflecting the Peruvian background of author and artist Ashley Castañeda 23 IL, earned the Grand Purchase Prize of $500. Castañeda’s book explores the concept of quariwarmi, shamans who effectively existed as non-binary in pre-Columbian Peru. “In my embroidered book, I made a poem to reflect the process of transforming into a jaguar,” Castañeda explains. “By doing so, I explored my own queerness in reconnecting with my cultural past.”

“In my embroidered book, I made a poem to reflect the process of transforming into a jaguar. By doing so, I explored my own queerness in reconnecting with my cultural past.”

Grand Purchase Prize Winner Ashley Castañeda

Shihan Zhu took home the New England Chapter Purchase Prize for Confession, a book designed around a poem written by the artist.

The winner of the Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize, first-year student Danielle Kim 27 EFS, wrote and designed 100 Days for Birth, a story about the migration of humpback whales from Hawaii to California. Shihan Zhu MFA 23 PR took home the New England Chapter Purchase Prize for Confession, a book designed around a poem written by the artist. “The poem reveals a private part of my heart that creates a silent and untouchable flow,” says Zhu. The book is encased in a glass piece Zhu made, which they say, “holds the book, like a piece of solid ice.”

Snorkeling by Jinghong Chen depicts the immersive underwater landscape of Kona, Hawaii, in an effort to raise awareness around the ongoing protection of global coral reefs.

Jacob Davidson 23 IL took home the last of the purchase prizes, the New England Chapter, for Wolves, a short story inspired by the cultural history of the artist’s ancestors. In addition to the purchase prizes, four artists were awarded $100 honorable mentions. While Snorkeling by Jinghong Chen 23 IL depicts the immersive underwater landscape of Kona, Hawaii, Jingjing Yang MFA 23 PR addresses an ancient myth about mengpo soup, creating a collection of “tears” representing obsessions and memories of a person’s life, in Sea of Tears.

Zoe Maxwell wrote and designed Recorded in Fabric with quilted fabric and polyester stuffing as an ode to childhood nostalgia and family.

Another book focused on memories comes from Zoe Maxwell 26 EFS, who wrote and designed Recorded in Fabric with quilted fabric and polyester stuffing as an ode to childhood nostalgia and family. And finally, Sun Ho Lee MFA 23 GD speaks to how war divided her family in North Korea in The Chronicles of Sameri.

—Isabel Roberts / photos by Emily Begin and Hannah Nigro

Could the Next Great Author Be a Robot? We Asked (Human) Writers.At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature.

rizdeology Student-led conversations with fellow students, faculty, staff and alumni at one of the world’s premier colleges for art and design.

College Building, Rhode Island School of Design1822. 1936, Jackson, Robertson and Adams. 2 College St. (corner of South Main St.)

No Swan So Fine: a close reading — Katy Evans-BushNo Swan So Fine “No water so still as the   dead fountains of Versailles.” No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine   as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it was.  Lodged in the Lo

Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots, Uncovered by Amateur Code BreakersThe messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library.

I don't like the cold but you make me want to be from Chicago Lupe

“The Years”“Of course, it’s important / to go to parties.”

[No Comment ]Rilke – To Music | Harper's Magazine Musik: Atem der Statuen. Vielleicht: Stille der Bilder. Du Sprache wo Sprachen enden. Du Zeit die senkrecht steht auf der Richtung vergehender Herzen. Gefühle zu wem? O du der Gefühle Wandlung in was?— in hörbare Landschaft. Du Fremde: Musik. Du uns entwachsener Herzraum. Innigstes unser, das, uns übersteigend, hinausdrängt,— heiliger Abschied: da uns das Innre […]

The SlowdownThe Slowdown podcast hosted by Ada Limón delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry

“Putins come and go. If you want to help, send us some poems and essays. We are putting together a literary magazine.”

Opinion | Poems in a Time of CrisisWhy are so many turning to poetry during this war?

Deep Sea AnglerfishLife in the deep sea is difficult, so many fishes there have special adaptations to improve their ability to feed and to mate. Deep sea anglerfish may not regularly encounter suitable prey, so they have very large mouths and stomachs and long, pointy teeth in order to facilitate capturing and swallowing anything that they find. They ... Read more

Evolution turned this fish into a 'penis with a heart.' Here's how.Anglerfish traded their immune systems for spooky fusion sex, new study suggests.

E. E. Cummings | Poetry FoundationEdward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the Cambridge Latin High School, where he studied Latin and Greek. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). As one of the most innovative…

"John Antrobus, "A Plantation Burial" (1860, oil on canvas)

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Virtual Book Tour for Ultramarine by Wayne Koestenbaum! – Nightboat BooksAnnouncing the Virtual Book Tour for Ultramarine by Wayne Koestenbaum! Thursday, 2/24 at 3pm PT / 6pm ET hosted by The New School with Angelo Nikolopoulos and Mark Bibbins. RSVP here. Thursday, 3/3 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET hosted by City Lights with Ronaldo V. Wilson. RSVP here. Tuesday, 3/15 hosted by 192 Books with Mónica de la […]

Raymond Antrobus : All The Names Given & The Perseverance - Tin HouseBritish poet, educator, and writer Raymond Antrobus has two poetry collections out this year. The US release of his award-winning debut The Perseverance and his follow-up, just out now, All The Names Given. We discuss both books in relation to Antrobus’ own particular deaf poetics. What questions do his poems raise about audience and accessibility, […]

My first Radio Doc for BBC Radio 4 - 'Inventions In Sound' — Raymond AntrobusMy first Radio Documentary for BBC Radio 4. Watch / Listen here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t4km

BBC Radio 4 - Inventions in SoundThe poet Raymond Antrobus explores the art of translating sound for the eye.

Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of SeeingMost everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.

How a Gray Painting Can Break Your HeartThis austere work by Jasper Johns doesn’t seem to invite much of a close read. But its cool surface belies a depth of feeling, which shows us all the power of artistic restraint.

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Day After Day of the Dead by Nathaniel Mackey | Poetry Foundation“While we’re alive,” we kept

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Dave Grohl Has Some Writing Advice You Need to HearWhile he was working on his No. 1 best seller, “The Storyteller,” the iconic rocker found the common ground between music and books.

“When you make a record, you have a collection of songs. You start recording. You start to hear the tone of the album, and then it’s a matter of finding the perfect sequence from beginning to end. That’s what happened as I was writing these stories: I started to realize what was the first song, what was the last song, what was Side A, what was Side B, what I needed, what I didn’t have, what I had too much of.”

As restaurant owner Henry Yaffe recalled, "She told me if I could give her work there three nights a week, she would quit teaching." He did and she did.

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The Fall

There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he was a tree.

To which they said then go into the yard and do not grow in the living-room as your roots may ruin the carpet.

He said I was fooling I am not a tree and he dropped his leaves.

But his parents said look it is fall.

Russell Edson

Novel by Arthur RimbaudIWe aren't serious when we're seventeen.

The Job of a Poet Is to Witness by Saeed Jones | Poetry FoundationA conversation with Patricia Smith, winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Julio Cortazar

[from Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand, 1985

The Lines of the Hand

From a letter thrown on the table a line comes which runs across the pine plank and descends by one of the legs. Just watch, you see that the line continues across the parquet floor, climbs the wall and enters a reproduction of a Boucher painting, sketches the shoulder of a woman reclining on a divan, and finally gets out of the room via the roof and climbs down the chain of lightning rods to the street. Here it is difficult to follow it because of the transit system, but by close attention you can catch it climbing the wheel of a bus parked at the corner, which carries it as far as the docks. It gets off there down the seam on the shiny nylon stocking of the blondest passenger, enters the hostile territory of the customs sheds, leaps and squirms and zigzags its way to the largest dock, and there (but it's difficult to see, only the rats follow it to clamber aboard) it climbs onto the ship with the engines rumbling, crosses the planks of the first-class deck, clears the major hatch with difficulty, and in a cabin where an unhappy man is drinking cognac, and hears the parting whistle, it climbs the trouser seam, across the knitted vest, slips back to the elbow, and with a final push finds shelter in the palm of the right hand, which is just beginning to close around the butt of a revolver.

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Las Lineas de la Mano - Julio CortazarAdaptación ilustrada del cuento "Las lineas de la Mano" del autor Julio Cortázar. Ilustraciones por: Andrea Ezeta

A Deconstruction of ‘Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From’ with the Translation Editors - Columbia JournalA conversation between the Columbia Journal Translation Editors about the main topics traversing through ‘Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From’ by Sawako Nakayasu

Rain Taxi Literary Events - Rain TaxiIn keeping with its drive to celebrate and support literature, Rain Taxi sponsors (and co-sponsors) live events in the Twin Cities. All events are free

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Impromptu memorial honors life of SF poet Lawrence FerlinghettiOn Monday, San Francisco poet and City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101...

Mario Schifano’s GreatnessTo say the exhibition "Facing America: Mario Schifano 1960–65" is an eye opener hardly does it justice.

To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York CityAlex Dimitrov’s third collection, “Love and Other Poems,” delivers a burst of energy and a happy reminder of Frank O’Hara’s work.

The Review: Testimony by Charles Reznikoff | BrickCharles Reznikoff’s Testimony may be one of the most influential obscure works of poetry produced in the twentieth century. Its first volume appeared in 1934, and the last appeared posthumously in…

Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2020 revealedTikToker and Megxit among mostly coronavirus-related terms on dictionary's top 10 list

Poetry CanonA program by The Poetry Project.

The Science Is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize SleepThe more scientists learn about the slumbering brain, the more they realize how vital sleep actually is. Now some researchers hope to develop it into a form of medicine.

Wallace Stevens, "The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination"

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Emily Dickinson | Poetry FoundationEmily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with…

Listen Up: These Young Black Poets Have a MessageTen teenage writers confront an America in flames and fight back, in their own words.

The Pious French Poet Who Palled Around With Picasso and ApollinaireIn “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters,” Rosanna Warren retraces the colorful history of a now largely forgotten figure of French modernism who was surrounded by famous friends.

For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the MessageOur poetry columnist reviews “My Baby First Birthday,” by Jenny Zhang, “Toxicon and Arachne,” by Joyelle McSweeney, and “DMZ Colony,” by Don Mee Choi.

saw a video of a gang of bees swarming a hornet that killed their bee-homie so i called to say i love you — The RuptureDanez Smith   honey bitch you kin me so good i would kill on sight  if you asked gun knife or bite a man down to bloodnectar i say i would cut an anyone for you & people have the scars to prove it & that is not a fact only true  for thi

Reimagining MasculinityOcean Vuong writes, "Masculinity, or what we have allowed it to be in America, is often realized through violence."

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15:08:41 From Yuqing Liu : https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/ants-tokyo-15244

15:09:34 From Yuqing Liu : The way the sound is used reminded me of this poem by Sawako where Japanese onomatopoeia is meshed (but also clearly separated) from the English narration, and there’s also a reading of her’s!

Lewis and Clark Overheard in Conversation

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When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’In 1820, the British poet spent 10 days quarantined in the Bay of Naples as typhus raged, an enforced stillness mirrored by our own.

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Charles Reznikoff - David R. Godine, PublisherCharles Reznikoff, the son of Russian garment workers, was a blood-and-bone New Yorker; a collector of images and stories who walked the city from Bronx to Battery and breathed the soul of the Jewish immigrant experience into a lifetime of poetry.

Five Short Stories - Lydia Davis - Five DialsA Story of Stolen Salamis My son’s Italian landlord in Brooklyn kept a shed out back in which he cured and smoked salamis. One night, in the midst of a wave of petty vandalism and theft, the shed was broken into and the salamis were taken. My son talked to his landlord about it the next day, commiserating over the vanished sausages. The …

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 was awarded to Wislawa Szymborska "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality".

Lu Yimin 陆忆敏 poetry translations The Poetry of Lu Yimin 陆忆敏 Selections: 1984-1994 Li Yimin was born in Shanghai in 1963, and is married to the poet Wang Yin....

Three Principles of Architecture as Revealed by Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'Italo Calvino's 1972 novel 'Invisible Cities' reveals much about the idea of architecture and urbanism, three of which have to do with our current visual culture, architecture's dependance on landscape, and the timelessness of cities.

Haruki Murakami: ‘You have to go through the darkness before you get to the light’The books interview: his surreal stories are read by millions but the Japanese novelist is bemused by his celebrity. The eternal Nobel favourite reveals why his books appeal in times of chaos

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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry FoundationI met a traveller from an antique land,

I tend to see the poem as something like this:

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“Deaf Republic”A poet writes deafness as a form of dissent against tyranny and violence.

'I will never hear my father's voice': Ilya Kaminsky on deafness and escaping the Soviet UnionUntil his family migrated to the US when he was 16, the Ukrainian-born poet lived without sound. He discusses his family’s persecution and his first collection in a decade

Bigfoot for Women by Amy PickworthMelissa Adamo reviews Amy Pickworth’s Bigfoot for Women today in Rumpus Poetry.

The Guardian view on the healthy state of poetry: a reprimand to Trump and Johnson | EditorialEditorial: English-language poetry is in great health – and has much to tell us about our fragile, fraught times

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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn BrooksWe real cool. We

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U.S. Latinx Voices in PoetryExploring Latino/a American poetry and culture.

“Verse Africa: The Malleable Poetics of Some Contemporary African Poets,” by Matthew Shenoda

Asian American Voices in PoetryA collection of poets and articles exploring Asian American culture

Second Mouth by Franny ChoiOther-lips whispering between my legs.

Blind Boone's Vision by Tyehimba JessWhen I got old enough

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Immigrating Into English“The trouble began when I decided to be dangerously ambitious. Which is to say, I decided to write a poem.”

“Todesfuge” by Paul Celan (with translation)Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts wir trinken und trinken wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Lüften da liegt man nicht eng Ein Ma…

Interview with writer David ButlerHi David and welcome to writing.ie. How did you first get into writing? I think I always felt the compulsion to write. When I was in 4th and 5th class in St Brigid’s, Castleknock, a few stories I w…

Ilse BingIlse Bing was a remarkable poet and photographer whose works withstand the test of time.

Metaphors grow the mind and feed the soul. Don’t lose them – Heather Altfeld & Rebecca Diggs | Aeon EssaysIn our image-saturated, over-sped world, we are losing the imaginative power to create and find meaning through metaphor

So I went up to my room to do a hit of something and settled on Hart Crane, the modernist poet whose verses — ecstatic, transporting — are like verbal speed. I put on a recording of Tennessee Williams reading “The Broken Tower,” Crane’s best poem, sat back and absorbed it, veritably snorted it, letting its high-flying stanzas hit my brain. I did line after line.

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