What’s Left Out: The Poems That Haunt a Collection From the Outside
Every poetry collection has its “maybes” and “almosts,” the poems that didn’t make it to publication. A debut poet considers the poems that haunt a book from the outside.
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The Definition of Poetry: An Interview With Mosab Abu Toha
For Mosab Abu Toha, whose entire life and body of work, including his new collection, Forest of Noise, have been shaped by war, poetry is a way for all of us to document, to try to understand, and to act in times of suffering.
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Small Press Points: Meekling Press
For more than ten years, Meekling Press has been producing artist books, blending text and visual design to make unique literary-art objects with a playful punk sensibility.
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Ukrainian Children Turn to Poetry
The Odesa Poetry Studio is a free program that creates space for children to gather, write poems, and share their work with one another, validating their voices and feelings as they live through ongoing war.
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Individual Artist Fellowships
Delaware Division of the Arts
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$0
Deadline:
August 1, 2024
Established Professional Fellowships of $8,000 each and Emerging Artist Fellowships of $5,000 each are given annually to at least four poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who have lived in Delaware for at least one year. Using only the online submission system, submit 15 to 20 pages of poetry or prose, a résumé, and an artist’s statement by August 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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Small Press Points: Airlie Press
Founded seventeen years ago to support poetry from the Pacific Northwest, Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher guided by a unique rotating editorial board of poets from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
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Wanderer & Wonderer: A Q&A With Victoria Chang
The author of With My Back to the World talks about the importance of staying true to who we are while allowing the writing to tell us where to go, and how she views her work as a mapping of her changing mind and perception.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib and Glitter Road by January Gill O’Neil.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
An introduction to four new anthologies, including The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture and You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World.
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Poetry NFTs Are Having a Moment
No longer limited to static text on a page, poets are composing verse in the unique medium of an NFT, opening new creative, collaborative, and financial possibilities for work that defies categorization.
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