November 2020
Historical Research in Poems: An Omnibus Interview Marilyn Nelson, Dolores Hayden, Roger Sedarat, Kiki Petrosino
Leslie McGrath
“The differences among the
poets’ intentions and research
practices are as compelling as
the areas of overlap.”
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A Conversation with Carolyn Forché
Sam Risak
“I keep in mind that the earth will never be as healthy and as varied and as robust and alive again as it is today. We are in a decline we have not yet begun to reverse.”
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SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “Catastrophe & Survival: Women Ecopoets Navigate Pathways Past Denials: A Conversation” with Camille T. Dungy, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Brenda Hillman, Sandra Meek, & Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Karen Salyer McElmurray
“Despite the #MeToo movement, public acceptance of misogynist behavior and reluctance to believe women’s testimony exists. This political reality exists alongside our persistent violation of the Earth and global-warming induced catastrophe. Five celebrated women poets discuss the intrinsic connections of gender, class, race, and environmental activism.”
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Identity & Digression: Notes on Apposition in Lyric Poetry
Nathan Hoks
“Contrary to its technical function, apposition in a poem is often not a simple matter of clarification or definition, but a parallelism that quickens metaphor.”
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Brief But True
Jennifer Sinor
“The flash form in nonfiction works a lot like an O’Keeffe painting. It alters our understanding of space and time, asks us to see and experience the world differently.”
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Poetic Form as a Tool for Restoring the Black Body to History: Tyehimba Jess, Marilyn Nelson, Derek Walcott, & Countee Cullen
Jasmine V. Bailey
“For African American poets
who choose to engage history
in their work, violence to the
black body, and black bodies’
erasure through violence,
presents a unique challenge…”
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How Does the Expert of Creative Nonfiction Write a Memoir?
Lee Gutkind
"I know about teaching, editing, reading memoir, but writing one? I was, in many ways, starting from scratch—in fact, in some ways, I was relearning the craft."
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: An Appreciation
Kathi Wolfe
“Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not
simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong and I
would do it this way.’ But the greatest
dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant
view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they
are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.”—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1933–2020
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An Interview with Jericho Brown
Jona Colson
“Poetry has been taken for granted, yet people have been changed and moved by poetry that they themselves cannot explain."
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