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On Poetry

Thematic essays on beauty, politics, poetic forms, and more.

On Marcellus Khaliifah Williams’ “At Last...Another’s Heartbeat”

Dujie Tahat

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Carl Phillips on Audre Lorde

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Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School

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The Listening World: Neurodivergent Poets from Unrestricted Interest

Chris Martin

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Senryū: The Haiku’s Comic Cousin

Kimiko Hahn

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Escape Into Time by Peter J. Grippe. An abstract engraving.

Escape into Time

Timothy Donnelly

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So Far So Good: On Ursula K. Le Guin

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Take Note: Eleven New Collections by Asian American Poets

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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The Pale of Vermont

David Biespiel

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