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May 12, 2025

Selected Works by Marie Howe: The 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry

Discover the unique voice and poetic artistry of Marie Howe - the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner - through a selection of her profound and transformative poetry works.
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Published on May 12, 2025 01:30

April 18, 2025

Shifting Grounds: A Leap Beyond the Void

We rarely talk about the feeling of architecture. The quiet hum of a breeze brushing against the windowglaze.
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Published on April 18, 2025 05:19

March 7, 2025

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Neruda’s Rapturous Conflagration of Verse

When Neruda published Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in 1924, while the world was still trying to pick up the pieces WWI left
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Published on March 07, 2025 00:30

December 11, 2024

Ego Tripping and Other Works by the Outstanding Nikki Giovanni

American poet, writer, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943.
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Published on December 11, 2024 06:21

December 6, 2024

All of Us Strangers: Moulding Loneliness Into Dreams

Director Andrew Haigh's adaptation of Japanese writer Taichi Yamada's novel is a visually stunning, soul-wrenching story of loneliness and l
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Published on December 06, 2024 09:09

November 19, 2024

The City in Which I Love You and Other Works by Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee (1957–Present) is a poet, memoirist, translator, and author of many poetry collections, such as "The City in which I Love You."
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Published on November 19, 2024 23:00

November 12, 2024

Book of the Month: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Revered as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke expanded the world of poetry in an utterly unique way
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Published on November 12, 2024 11:06

October 16, 2024

Mark Strand: Black Maps, The Garden, and Orpheus Alone

Mark Strand (1934 - 2014) was recognized as one of his generation's most important American poets, writers, and editors.
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Published on October 16, 2024 09:30

October 11, 2024

Past Lives: Celine Song's Debut Story of Choice, Fate, and Lost Love

Celine Song's debut feature is a painfully simple and direct story, and yet it overpowers with complexity of emotion.
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Published on October 11, 2024 08:45

October 3, 2024

Three Poems and Three Books by Louise Glück

Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University....
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Published on October 03, 2024 07:29