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Poets & Writers Magazine
Sarah Browning Splits This Rock
Ten years ago, Sarah Browning and a group of fellow poets founded Split This Rock, a literary nonprofit that works at the intersection of poetry and political activism and hosts the biennial Split
3 min |
March - April 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
On The Trail
I AM sitting in a faded-green lawn chair on the patio behind a rented house in the desert of Twentynine Palms, California. I’m here on a two-week writing and hiking retreat with my friend, the writer Jo Ann Beard.
9 min |
March - April 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Poem Chooses You
The National Recitation Competition Poetry Out Loud Does More Than Teach Students How to Memorize Poems. It Opens Them Up to New Ways of Perceiving the World Around Them.
10+ min |
March - April 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
How Deep This Grief
How Deep This Grief
10 min |
September - October 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Bookshop Band
For two weeks in January and February, English singer-songwriters Beth Porter and Ben Please, who together form the Bookshop Band, traveled across the United States performing their book-inspired music in libraries and bookstores.
4 min |
May - June 2019
Poets & Writers Magazine
My Past And Future Assassin
In his sixth book, a sonnet sequence published by Penguin in June, Terrance Hayes cuts deep, to the marrow of the American moment, in a form with a razor’s edge: Love poems for the forces trying to kill you.
10+ min |
July - August 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
Severe Weather In The Sunshine State
Florida isn’t just the title of Lauren Groff’s new story collection, published in June by Riverhead books; It’s also a bad joke, a good home, a source of inspiration, a set of contradictions, and, perhaps, ultimately a state of mind.
10+ min |