I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...
They Lost Someone to Covid. Here’s What They Learned About Grief.
It still feels kind of incomplete,” said someone who lost several family friends. “It doesn’t feel like there is that closure on any of it.” ...
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Reginald Dwayne Betts discusses his new collection of poems, 'Doggerel'
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on ...
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Composition and decomposition: DLCL’s symposium dissects poetry and poetics
The event featured a reading by poet and lecturer Cintia Santana, as well as brief presentations by a panel of graduate ...
Michael Rosen marks Covid anniversary with haunting poem of pandemic memories
The former children’s laureate, 78, was rushed to hospital with Covid and put into an induced coma in intensive care.
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Not “Illegal” Nor “Rapists” – The Urgency for New Stories About Poor Countries
When the world was turned upside down ... Zimbabweans, Bolivians, Guatemalans, and Haitians went on cruises around the ...
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Fern Press acquires artist and writer Marion Coutts’ 'beautiful' meditation on nature and grief
Through art, philosophy, poetry, geology and Minecraft ... This beautiful, moving book is both a universal story of grief and a unique exploration of our precious relationship with the land ...
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Cynthia Pelayo on Grief, Mystery, and Chicago Ghost Stories
Vanishing Daughters, written in the wake of her father’s death, is a novel about living through grief. For Chicago novelist ...