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Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is

Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is

The Author of “I Do Know Some Things” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | August 25, 2025

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Rosie Stockton Explores the Tension Between Our Obsession With Freedom and the Constraints of Car-Centric Capitalism

By Rosie Stockton | May 29, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

The Author of “Hymn to Dionysus” Explores a Linguistic Venn Diagram of Meaning

By Natasha Pulley | March 19, 2025

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

From the Introduction to “44 Poems on Being with Each Other”

By Pádraig Ó' Tuama | February 6, 2025

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

The “Author of Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo” Story in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2025

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Stacy Szymaszek on the Liberatory Possibilities of Outsider Poetry

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Matt Mitchell on Writing Love Poems for Himself and For Others

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The Poetics of Film: Four Poets on How Cinema Influences Their Work

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By Christopher Kondrich | February 17, 2023

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

“Through difference and repetition, the useless is smuggling in poetry and the poetic in language.”

By Sumana Roy | December 21, 2022

Aristotle Can Teach Us Everything We Need to Know About Screenwriting

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Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

“Poems don’t have to self-flagellate to be meaningful. That seems very Puritanical. Too American.”

By Sandra Simonds and Rodrigo Toscano | June 2, 2022

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