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TIME
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
TIME
2020-11-11 · Introducing this year's best fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Literary Hub
Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry
Literary Hub
2 min read · 2020-10-21 · Poetry is like a child in many ways: it grows and grows adding whatever is needed: teeth, longer legs, a mind that discriminates. Or maybe its like a thorn tree: it grows but you have to be careful…
newcriterion.com
On “getting” poetry by Adam Kirsch
newcriterion.com
~14 min read · Mar 30th · Adam Kirsch on deriving pleasure from poetry.
TIME
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
TIME
1 min read · 2019-11-14 · Introducing this year’s best fiction, nonfiction and poetry
The New Yorker
Introducing the New Yorker Poetry Bot
The New Yorker
3 min read · From 2017 · A new way to discover, read, listen to and share poetry from the magazine’s archive.
The Paris Review
Comics as Poetry
The Paris Review
8 min read · 2020-01-30 · Ivan Brunetti on Lynda Barry, and all the things that can happen in the space of four panels.
The New York Times
Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
The New York Times
5 min read · 2020-05-05 · Here are the 2020 contenders for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history and biography.
The New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2020
The New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-11-20 · The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
New York Magazine
How to Major in Unicorn
New York Magazine
~16 min read · 2019-09-04 · Many of the 1,700 freshmen arriving in Palo Alto this September didn’t come for the Romantic poetry but to network, raise capital, and drop out.
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newcriterion.com
On “getting” poetry by Adam Kirsch
newcriterion.com
~14 min read · Mar 30th · Adam Kirsch on deriving pleasure from poetry.
Guardian Books
‘A box of light’: AI inspired by British verse attempts to write poetry
Guardian Books
3 min read · Mar 20th · After processing more than half a million lines by human poets, experts say it is the best attempt yet to produce computer-generated poetry
The New York Times
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101
The New York Times
9 min read · Feb 23rd · An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.
The Rumpus
National Poetry Month Day 1: Matthew Olzmann
The Rumpus
2 min read · Apr 2nd · Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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~11 min read · 2020-12-24 · The memoirs, novels, and poetry that stood out most
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A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
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1 min read · 2019-04-28 · Why do so many startups fail? Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives?
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~11 min read · 2019-08-20 · Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than modern pornography
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Shelley on Poetry and the Art of Seeing
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2 min read · 2019-09-30 · “Poetry… reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our be…
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Electric Literature
31 Poets Recommend 31 Poetry Books to Read Every Day in August
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~20 min read · 2019-08-01 · Poet Nicole Sealey challenges you to read one poetry book a day this month, and Ocean Vuong, Hanif Abdurraqib, and others are here to tell you where to start
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How to Live with Our Human Limitations: Physicist Brian Greene Reads and Reflects on Rilke’s Profoundest Elegy
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3 min read · 2020-12-26 · “Not because happiness exists, that over-hasty profit from imminent loss, not out of curiosity, or to practice the heart… But because being here is much, and because all that’s here seems to …
The New York Review of Books
The Language of Poetry
The New York Review of Books
~17 min read · 2020-03-04 · 1. Poetry is often regarded as a mystery, and in some respects it is one. No one is quite sure where poetry comes from, no one is quite sure exactly what it is, and no one knows, really, how anyone is…
The Verge
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The Verge
~16 min read · From 2017 · In the ‘90s, Aby Ngana Diop was the queen of taasu, a practice of ritual poetry performed by female griots in Senegal. Diop’s distinctive vocals made her a sought-after performer at the weddings...
