Articles
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ProfileBy Jason Boog
Kenneth Fearing, the Federal Writers Project, and the depths of the Great Depression.
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ProfileBy Milan Gagnon
How celebrated Chicano poet Juan Felipe Herrera found his voice.
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ProfileBy Geoffrey O'Brien
How Jack Spicer broke through the pieties of the avant-garde.
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ProfileBy Cynthia Haven
At a fateful moment, Czeslaw Miłosz crossed paths with a controversial Polish priest, later martyred in World War II. The little-known encounter and its aftermath illuminate the Nobel laureate’s life...
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ProfileBy Jesse Nathan
Shel Silverstein's unusual route to becoming a beloved children's author.
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ProfileBy Rachel Aviv
The late short-story wizard Grace Paley began and ended her long writing career as a poet.
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ProfileBy Ben Ehrenreich
In which our reporter falls for Frank Stanford's poetry, heads for the lost roads of Arkansas, and searches for the man behind the myth.
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ProfileBy Rachel Aviv
Remembering the recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award.
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ProfileBy Charles Mudede
Chris Abani endured years of torture and persecution by the Nigerian government. But don’t hold it against him.
