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Encountering a Poet Workshops—Mark Your Calendar!
Mark your calendar! Workshops on the work of Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Bly, Pablo Neruda, and E. E. Cummings. Presenters will be Lynn Kincanon, Joseph Hutchison (Moi), Evan Oakley, and Marj Hahne. Kudos to the Loveland Public Library and Loveland Poet Laureate Program for such an exciting series! Registration is required at lovlib.org/events.Read More
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Podcast featuring Lynn Kincanon and Moi
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Adventures in Reading 2019
2019 was a challenging year—deaths, health scares, creative dysfunction—but as ever, reading sustained me. I finally read Juan Rulfo‘s classic Pedro Páramo—one of those books that makes me wonder why I waited so long. It’s a visceral, phantasmagorical novel with all the psychic force of Greek tragedy. I knew that it is widely considered the first fully-realized instance of magical realism, and I can see how unlikely it would be for us to have One Hundred Years of Solitude without Rulfo’s influence.Read More
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Essential Breath
Fiona Sampson’s review of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s The Butterfly’s Burden, is — according to Laila Lalami — the first review of this copious collection since the book’s release in the U.S. over a year ago by Copper Canyon Press. (The fact that such an important book would have to be republished in England before a major news outlet would acknowledge its existence makes one wonder if the Israel Lobby doesn’t influence more than U.S.Read More