The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
A look at three new anthologies, including New Weathers: Poetics From the Naropa Archive, edited by Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis.
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A look at three new anthologies, including New Weathers: Poetics From the Naropa Archive, edited by Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis.
“I was surprised by my own tendency to write longer and longer lines and to frequently slip into prose poems.” —Nina Mingya Powles, author of Magnolia 木蘭
The author of Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation offers a psychoanalytic approach to imagining the reader.
“If you can surprise a reader with a character’s reaction, a scene will almost always work.” —Megan Giddings, author of The Women Could Fly
“Writing, I now believe, is both a confidence trick and an alchemical process.” —Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different
Seven poets and writers are among the class of 2022 Disability Futures fellows.
“I needed to live all of the change and movement and multiplicity that the book wound up being about in order to write it.” —Caylin Capra-Thomas, author of Iguana Iguana
“A reader who truly needs these stories might not come to them for weeks, months, or even years.” —Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
The author of Took House explores the importance of “strangeness” in poetry and offers a method for capturing this quality by combining two different draft poems.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named Ada Limón the next poet laureate of the United States.