Reading Bashö in the Suburbs
Don’t follow in the footsteps of the old poets, seek what they sought. – Bashö[1] ain drips through the pines in the backyard, shushes…
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Ellen McGrath Smith’s Four Books That Prove You Can Get the News from Poems
“It is difficult / to get the news from poems.” Yeah, William Carlos Williams said that, but I always thought he was making a…
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Maureen N. McLane’s Seven Poets on the Verge
When Vela invited me to contribute a piece on emerging women writers, I jumped at the chance—this past year has found me thrilling to…
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Chloe Honum’s Seven Poets on Grief
Grief was what first drove me to poetry. As a teenager, in the throes of loss, I felt language slipping away from me—or me…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of the some of the best pieces by women we read this week. Eliza Griswold’s “Landays” in Poetry This piece of investigative…
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