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Conversation with Katie Ford

Katie Ford is a brilliant poet whose work has received wide acclaim for its music, and its range of emotional intelligence and spiritual depth. Author of several poetry collections, most recently If You have To Go (Graywolf Press), Ford has been honored by the Lannan Literary Fellowship, and Larry Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in The […]

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Deaf poetics: Conversation with Raymond Antrobus

Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability earlier this year (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many e-mails, indicating much interest. There were also numerous requests to continue this series, and to go in more depth on individual poets’ paths and trajectories. In response,

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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON DEAF POETICS

Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability earlier this year, we have received many encouraging  e-mails, and requests to continue this series. In this second installment, our participants (Karen Christie, John Lee Clark and Lilah Katcher)  ask: what does it mean to be a deaf or DeafBlind or hard

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Jonas Zdanys Reviews Michael Jennings’ “Crossings: A Record of Travel”

Review of Michael Jennings’  Crossings: A Record of Travel: New and Selected Poems   Michael Jennings’ Crossings: A Record of Travel is a collection of lyrical-narrative poems, a journal of the poet’s progress through time, across varied horizons, and within personally-significant as well as culturally- and geographically-shared landscapes, all presented in accessible and familiar yet original

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Unsettling a Poetics of Space: BK Fischer Considers Lisa Olstein’s New Book

Unsettling a Poetics of Space: Review of Lisa Olstein, Late Empire (Copper Canyon, 2017)   “This is exactly what Empire wants you to do,” says the “almost friend” in the middle of Lisa Olstein’s Late Empire, “sit around crying or sit around writing, playing the small-time artist-agitator role” (52). The observation wryly calls out the

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Images from Gaza: Nasser Rabah

Nasser Rabah is a Palestinian poet born in Gaza. He has published several books of poetry in Arabic. In the United States his work has appeared in journals such as Two Lines (Center for the Art of Translation)  and elsewhere. Writing about him in LA Review of Books, Joanna Chen, a poet who lives in

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“Better Than Any Explanation”: a review of Zeina Hashem Beck’s Louder than Hearts

Louder than Hearts by Zeina Hashem Beck Bauhan Publishing, LLC, 2017   In Il Postino, the 1994 film depicting Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s exile in Italy and his subsequent friendship with a local postman, Mario Ruoppolo, there is a scene where Mario asks the famous poet about the meaning of the word “metaphor.” In this

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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON POETICS AND DISABILITY

Editor’s Note: In the Spring of 2018 Sandra Beasley, Meg Day, Constance Merritt, Khadijah Queen and Jillian Weise presented the most insightful, moving and passionate panel conversation at the Split This Rock Festival in DC. Inspired by their presentation, we couldn’t resist asking them follow up questions for our first Online Roundtable Discussion on Poetics and Disability at Poetry International.

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God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s “Banana Palace”

God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s Banana Palace Copper Canyon, 2016 by Emilia Phillips “We used our texting machines / to look up the definition of soul,” Dana Levin begins her fourth poetry collection, a move that destabilizes the reader’s sense of the contemporary moment by linguistically deconstructing the nascent objects with which we are

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Prophet Man by Shara McCallum

A part of Respect Due: Symposium on the Work of Kwame Dawes Shara McCallum Prophet Man It was around three in the afternoon and I was hurrying down Bloomsbury to collect my children from school in the adjacent neighborhood of Covent Garden. The street was the usual confusion of tourists heading to the nearby British Museum

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Kwame Dawes’ Requiem—Or, A Defense of Narrative in Black Poetry by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

A part of Respect Due: Symposium on the Work of Kwame Dawes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Kwame Dawes’ Requiem—Or, A Defense of Narrative in Black Poetry [1] In the beginning chapter of his 1990 masterpiece, Poétique de la Relation (published seven years later in the United States as Poetics of Relation), the Caribbean poet, writer, and critic

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