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Deaf Republic artist: Jennifer Whitten
blog post by Laura Yoo Jennifer Whitten – image provided by the artist Ilya Kaminksy’s poetry collection Deaf Republic (2019) is a book that should be studied from cover to cover. Start with the brick...
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Poetry for Every Body with Molly McCully Brown
Molly McCully Brown Headlines HoCoPoLitSo’s Fourteenth Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival Molly McCully BrownPhoto: Marco Giugliarelli Molly McCully Brown headlines the Blackbird Poetry Festival to be...
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On Reading the Poems of Molly McCully Brown: I Hope You’re Uncomfortable
Sama Bellomo by Sama Bellomo For me, good poetry hurts. A successful poem reignites my anger because candlelight vigils don’t. For her poetry collection Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and...
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Poetries of Belonging — HoCoPoLitSo’s 15th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
Noah Arhm Choi (Photo by Lauren Savannah) Noah Arhm Choi headlines the Blackbird Poetry Festival to be held on April 27, 2023, at Howard Community College (HCC). The festival is a day devoted to...
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an invitation to your first (or 264th) poetry reading
by Laura Yoo I know that poetry has a reputation for being “highfalutin” and hoity toity. I know that some poems are hard and they seem utterly unreadable or unknowable. As I have confessed elsewhere...
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