"The International Poetry Forum Is Back"
"Fast forward 14 years to a sunny afternoon last September at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland, where the forum made an improbable return. In the hall that served as home to the forum’s first incarnation, Jake Grefenstette—the forum’s 31-year-old new president and executive director—introduced Hazo to the stage as the first reader of this new era."
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What Sparks Poetry: Rowan Ricardo Phillips on Drafts
"Each stage of the poem’s evolution reshaped its engagement with inherited forms. The invocation, the sound patterns, even the omission of forbidden—each choice was informed by an ongoing dialogue with Milton’s legacy. Yet through this recursive process, the poem became its own. The recursive act of writing allowed me to rework Milton’s themes of creation and rebellion through a contemporary lens, tracing a poetic lineage that spans from the epic tradition to the fractured rhythms of modern music." |
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