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Many thanks indeed to all our readers and contributors, whose passion for poetry inspires us, and to all our generous donors, without whose support we could not continue. We look forward to sharing the very best contemporary poetry with you for the rest of the year. Stay safe and stay well. |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Allison Cobb on Theodore Roethke's "I Knew a Woman"
"I encountered Theodore Roethke’s 'I Knew a Woman' in my teacher Rebecca Shankland’s high school English class. We read it alongside Wallace Stevens’ 'Emperor of Ice Cream.' These were probably the first two poems I had read from the twentieth century. They made poetry seem a living possibility to me, not something entombed in the past." |
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"A Collage of American Thought"
"In Railsplitter, Maurice Manning’s newest collection (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), he has taken on the voice of Abraham Lincoln to talk to readers about poetry, attention, and civilization....This new collection, though, features Manning’s trademark historical focus with a sharpened edge, as he interrogates the people and ideas that birthed this strange and mystical country."
via THE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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