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Announcement: Emily Riddle has won the 2023 Canadian First Book Prize.
(Griffin Poetry Prize)
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Finalists & Winners - Griffin Poetry Prize

griffinpoetryprize.com

Interview: "Is a poem more based in space or in time? Is it more like a sculpture or a film?"
(Chicago Review of Books)
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Clarity and Complexity: A Conversation with Annelyse Gelman about “Vexations”

An interview with Annelyse Gelman about her latest collection, “Vexations”

chireviewofbooks.com

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Essay: "One evening in the hospital in mid-February, I read him some of my favorite poems, poems that my own mother had read to me as a child."
(The Washington Post)
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Opinion | Poems offered me an anchor as I lost my son, so I shared them

Words that held my dying child rapt touched others around the world. Here's how.

www.washingtonpost.com

Interview: "...my relationship to writing only improved when I stopped looking up and elsewhere and started sharing work with the friends around me."
(Financial Times)
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Poet Will Harris: ‘The trait I find most irritating in others? An excessive love of fascism’

The writer on mentors, his Tubby Custard obsession and free will

www.ft.com

Report: "...the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years."
(LitHub)
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Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.

Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 y...

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Essay: "How do you see the person you’ve lived with for decades as if for the first time? How do you make the 10,000th kiss romantic and new?"
(Oprah Daily)
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How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad Rhymes)

The poet and author of Skeletons shares her tips for a writing a love poem—as well as some surprises.

www.oprahdaily.com

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Wondering what new books have just been published? We seriously consider every book we receive, and we feature poems from many of the best and most interesting collections among them, but it would be impossible to feature every fine book. Browse every book we’ve received in the past six months here—plus the list of journals and magazines we read regularly.