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[Orion Magazine] Writing a Grove: A Conversation with Poet Laureate Ada Limón (orionmagazine.org)

For podcast listeners: The Slowdown, a poem and a moment of reflection every weekday (www.slowdownshow.org)

I’m not a big podcast listener myself, but this caught my eye

[Paris Review] Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry No. 30 (archive.is)

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But The Wise Perceive Things About To Happen

C.P. Cavafy, 1915...

From "My God, It's Full of Stars" (www.poetryfoundation.org)

by Tracy K. Smith...

[OC] Rain (sh.itjust.works)

Just stumbled upon this place while browsing /all and I also happen to have written some lines just yesterday, for the first time in years....

Sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds...

"My Brother Lives Too Far Away" by Mark Van Doren

My brother lives too far away...

[New Yorker] The Second Life of Yi Lei’s Poetry: An encounter with Tracy K. Smith eased the late Chinese poet’s emergence into the Anglophone world. (archive.is)

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[OC][FB] Death's Game

I am the weaver of souls, the master of fate...

"Letter to My Blackout" by Maria Hummel

Dear sip, dear shotgun, dear pound:...

[Poet Spotlight] Melvin B. Tolson — Including "Sootie Joe" (web.archive.org)

Melvin B. Tolson was born in Moberly, Missouri, the eldest son of a Methodist preacher. His first published poem, about the sinking of the Titanic, appeared in an Iowa newspaper when Tolson was fourteen. In 1947, he was named poet laureate of Liberia and wrote Libretto for the Republic of Liberia to celebrate the centennial of...