November 2020
Historical Research in Poems: An Omnibus Interview Marilyn Nelson, Dolores Hayden, Roger Sedarat, Kiki Petrosino
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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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