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    By Timothy Yu October 10, 2022

    I was a poet long before I even knew what a critic was. Children may be taught, as I was, to read poems and to write their own, but nobody...

    geometric shape of a blossom, in aluminum (silvery white)
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    By Alina Stefanescu October 3, 2022

    When I set out to write about my mother’s azaleas—the baroque of their annual fuschias, the decadence of their overwrought efflorescence—the azaleas remained unsplendid and sullen. The azaleas refused—or did...

    abstract painting of red azaleas, red acrylic on white background
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    By Shayla Lawz September 26, 2022

    In part two, I explored how lyric poetry transforms the reader by allowing the writer to be in conversation with the world, and how the soundtrack in my book speculation,...

    Photograph of art installation, two broken white teacups with stains and holes, piled on top of each other, in a saucer.
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    By Achy Obejas September 19, 2022

    In October 2019, there were shootings in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Long Beach, and Kansas City. Bernie Sanders had a heart attack and Simone Biles won her twenty-first medal at the world...

    Photo of protestors in Santiago, one protestor holding large white flag with image of Jara's face, against blue sky.
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    By Kim Moore September 6, 2022

    I Woke Up and it was political I made coffee and the coffee was political I took a shower and the water was.                      ...

    pen and ink illustration with an eerie fairy-tale quality, vague outlines of a lion? a sleeping girl? a tree.
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    By Shayla Lawz August 22, 2022

    In part one, I explored how poetry’s political power lies in its ability to transform the reader, focusing in particular on performance. In this section, I turn my attention to...

    Multicolored geometric shapes (blues browns, blacks, greens) in a composition that, according to the full image description " evokes mirrors placed at different angles, reflecting and refracting chunks of colored light. It is easy to imagine getting lost
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    By Kim Moore August 1, 2022

    In 2020, as one of the judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, I was lucky enough to be invited to interview the poet Rachel Long, whose debut collection, My...

    9 square prints with photos  using sign language to say:" We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard." Photos are black and white/sepia toned, range from close up of a face to profile shot of a child, a photo of just two hands, etc.
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    By Shayla Lawz July 25, 2022

    Art exists in the space of transformation.                            It lives in our minds and bodies intimately, ready to be called upon in our time of need: whether when we recall...

    Abstract image of yellow and red light.
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    By Achy Obejas July 11, 2022

    When my bilingual poetry collection, Boomerang/Bumerán, was published last year, I felt a tremendous sense of gratification at seeing one of its central elements—the use of non-gendered language, particularly in Spanish—recognized, and...

    white three dimensional alphabet pieces arranged, in no discernible order, in a square shape, with random alphabet around it, against a black backdrop.
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    By Kim Moore July 5, 2022

    In the pub after a reading, a man comes up to me to tell me how men of his generation (he seems to be in his late twenties/early thirties but...

    abstract painting incorporating geometric shapes and lines, gouache on paper
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