Today's Featured Poem:

'Grievance' by Morri Creech from The Sentence, published by LSU Press

Read here:
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Today’s Featured Poet:

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets (Yale University Press) and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press (@weslpress).

What object could I, if I stood before
Them, any ancestor, what object could
I gesture to, to start to learn the language
Wherever I have met them, if I stood

- 'Race in Language' by Whiting winner Shane McCrae, via Poetry Daily buff.ly/3JXWKSp

Today's Featured Poem:

'Residue Guidelines' by Cindy Juyoung Ok, from Ward Toward, published by Yale University Press .

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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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Loving this tote from Poetry Daily

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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Today’s Featured Poet:

Evelyn Reilly is a New York-based poet, scholar, and environmentalist. Her books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso and Echolocation, published by Roof Books, and Having Broken, Are published by BlazeVOX [books].

Today’s Feature:

In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Ecopoetry Now, Evelyn Reilly writes on “Having Broken, Are,' published by BlazeVOX [books] .

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Interview: 'The first step, I think, is to question our place in the world in relation to other species.'
(WLT)
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Today's Featured Poet:

Mia Dimina is a highschool writer located in Arlington, Virginia. She is currently the 2024 Arlington County Youth Poet Laureate, and works as an editor for both her school’s literary magazine and a teen-targeted magazine, The Empty Inkwell Review.

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Motherland” by Mia Dimina, from Matcha House.

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Profile: 'Within the first 10 minutes of meeting Bianca Stone, we’re talking about dreams and the subconscious...'
(Times Argus)
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Today's Featured Poet:

Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Her newest book, Room Swept Home, is a work of poems, historical and family photographs (weslpress, 2024).

Today's Featured Poem:

'25 days after I am born' by Remica Bingham-Risher, from Room Swept Home, published by weslpress.

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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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Today's Featured Poet:

Nate Duke is the author of A Suit of Paper Feathers (Parlor Press, 2023). His work appears in Paris Review, Granta, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Poetry from Florida State University.

this is a poem abt how a cat I’d never interacted with laid on my chest when I was v sad! Animal magnetism. If ur reading on phone turn it horizontal for better line breaks ❤️👽

Today's Featured Poem:

'On a Farm Near Junction City' by Nate Duke, from A Suit of Paper Feathers, published by David Blakesley.

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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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