Essay: "Something about the way I had been taught or had come to think about metaphor... was causing this sense of not being at home in metaphor or in the world."
(TYR)
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https://yalereview.org/article/jennifer-grotz-metaphor

Report: "Right now, the future is extremely uncertain for SPD’s former small presses—but they’re adapting as quickly as they can."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/the-small-press-world-is-about-to-fall-apart-on-the-collapse-of-small-press-distribution/

Announcement: "Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib... [is] among this year's recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners each receive $175,000 cash awards."
(SF Chronicle)
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/poet-critic-hanif-abdurraqib-among-8-winners-of-19381764.php

Interview: "When I first started writing poems, I thought I was supposed to sound like everyone else."
(P&W)
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https://www.pw.org/content/wanderer_wonderer_a_qa_with_victoria_chang

Report: "The Nuyorican Poets Cafe... has launched a $24 million, city-funded renovation that organizers hope will ensure the cafe's future for decades to come."
(Gothamist)
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https://gothamist.com/news/nuyorican-poets-cafe-an-east-village-icon-begins-a-24m-makeover

Retrospective: "Roughly 20 minutes before our presentations were set to begin, however, we received a text from her husband Larry Ochs that Lyn had died that morning. Stunned by the news, we had no thought but to continue."
(LARB)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/allegorical-moments-lyn-hejinians-life-in-writing/

Obituary: "Marjorie Perloff... one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on Sunday at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 92."
(NYT)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/marjorie-perloff-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Report: "Small Press Distribution, one of the last remaining independent book distributors in the United States, has closed."
(PW)
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/94690-small-press-distribution-shuts-down.html

Essay: "Even for small magazines like us, there’s always going to be some degree of tension between radical poetic content and the realities of publishing."
(P&W)
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https://www.pw.org/agents_editors_recommend/dominick_knowles_of_protean

Essay: "I wrote myself back to writing, I wrote myself through each day. I wrote myself, however ambivalently, back to life."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/style-as-survival-on-writing-after-death/