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Interviews and profiles
Kennedy has cast a long shadow as poet, editor, teacher – and loving advocate of verse.
Hirshfield finds that writing, like gardening, needs a balance of 'deliberative labor' and 'allowing-to-arrive.'
The president of the Poetry Foundation has to balance financial sense and artistic sensibility.
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Reviews
Wislawa Szymborska's work makes imaginative leaps, while Jane Hirshfield's is analytical.
In Czeslaw Milosz's verse, keen intellect is blended with hope.
Barbara Crooker's carefully observed verse moves from darkness to the light.
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News
In April we reclaim poetry as part of our lives.
The poetry finalists for this year's National Book Critics Circle awards have very little in common, at least on the surface.
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