Maybe, just maybe, the mainstream media can focus a little less on colleges for a moment. Maybe they can take their cameras to Gaza and show us the emaciated children who are dying of malnutrition due to Netanyahu’s policies. Maybe they can show us the suffering going on there.

Congratulations to the editors of the inaugural issue of The Swannanoa Review !

If you need a little break from the maelstrom, nothing better than a gathering in celebration of literary translation. You'll find some great options here. (With thanks to Stephanie Cuepo Wobby)
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Just found an exciting bookmark in my Enid Starkie biography of Rimbaud!

Anna Swir:

Listen. Be faithful. Go.

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Highly recommend. Happy Earth Day! youtube.com/watch?v=q-d296…

What to do with this memory: as a girl, I grew up with shampoo and creme rinse. When did it become conditioner?

I had the chance to choose something from the The Paris Review archives to unlock this week. Here is my introduction to the Art of Poetry interview with William Meredith, whose words ('Why so many?') helped me through a very long period of writing no poetry mailchi.mp/theparisreview…

Still Falling by Jennifer Grotz Graywolf Press

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'There is no stable or fixed relationship between the literal and figurative. They can occur separately, they can occur together, they can even be overlapping.'

Jennifer Grotz reconsiders metaphor: yalereview.org/article/jennif…

With Eli Zeger in Boston Review on the future of music criticism, Sam Adler-Bell in The Baffler on Adam Phillips, Jennifer Grotz in The Yale Review on metaphor, Alice Notley in The Brooklyn Rail on the experience of writing a poem… (1/2)

'...but the vehicle, the patient etherized upon a table, was also my mother, and she was also my tenor, the whole reason for my being in France or on earth in the first place. My mother was the part of the comparison I could not understand.'

-- a great essay by Jennifer Grotz

What did T.S. Eliot mean when he compared the sunset to a 'patient etherized on a table'? In a new essay today on TYR, Jennifer Grotz reexamines one of the most famous similes in the English language: yalereview.org/article/jennif…

Our Spring 2024 special issue, “African Writing: A Partial Cartography of Provocations,” guest edited by Chris Abani, is finally here. Visit our website to learn about our contributors, see the table of contents and order a copy of your own: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/mqr-issue-…

“Poetry and thinking for Zagajewski have to do with learning how to see clearly. His poems celebrate those rare moments when we catch a glimpse of a world from which all labels have been unpeeled.” - Charles Simic

For the anniversary of Adam Zagajewski’s death 🖤

Elizabeth Bishop, on the sketchiness of Emily Dickinson's later letters: 'It is the sketchiness of the water-spider, tenaciously holding to its upstream position by means of the faintest ripples, while making one aware of the current of death and the darkness below.'

Join us in congratulating Jennifer Grotz, a Texas Institute of Letters Award winner for Best Book of Poetry! Texas Institute of Letters

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This looks so amazing I'm tempted to get in the car and just go! yalereview.org/festival?utm_s…