"Half the poems in Aleš Šteger’s 'The Book of Bodies' are narrow, stanzaless poems that obsess over a single word. After announcing the word in the first line, the poems, having been launched on a journey suggested by the word, spill down the page. In this case, the heaviness of 'here' conjures both an elephant and absence, along with the arrival as well as the disappearance of death."
Aleš Šteger on "The word here" |
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Poet Kevin Young to Lead African American Museum
"The Smithsonian on Wednesday named Kevin Young, a poet, archivist, author and editor, as the new director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture....'The museum is such a beacon of thinking about the way that African-American culture is at the center of the American experience, and you can’t tell the story of America without the story of African-Americans,' he said."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on “Fable for a Genome”
“For me, Virgil’s Aeneid is partly about continuity and repetition, a setting out over and over again. Likewise, David Ferry’s deep intertextual approach to writing—especially in Bewilderment, which includes his translations of Virgil, Catullus, and others, alongside his original poems—is also about continuity and iteration." |
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