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'Popular Longing' Digs Into Everything We'd Rather Leave Unsaid

In her third collection of poems, Natalie Shapero takes a blunt, funny look at the uncomfortable realities of life under capitalism. She says her work engages with the things people don't talk about.

February 22, 2021
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  • Jeevika Verma

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  • Book News & Features

'Love And Other Poems' Promises That Love Will Find Us

Alex Dimitrov's new collection — perfect for anyone caught between the moon and New York City — advises readers to be patient: Time is always moving on, bringing us closer and closer to love.

February 09, 2021
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  • Jeevika Verma

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While the Possible is Possible: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 3

In the final installment of our 2021 poetry preview, we bring you books that demonstrate the incredible capaciousness of poetry — and that we hope will be sustaining company for the year ahead.

February 04, 2021
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By:
  • Ana Božičević,
  • Ken Chen,
  • and 1 more
Writer Jackie Wang's debut poetry collection is called <em>The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void.</em>

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With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.

February 02, 2021
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma
Poet Amanda Gorman performs "The Hill We Climb" during the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.

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After Inaugural Performance, Poet Amanda Gorman Tops The Amazon Bestseller List

Gorman's debut poetry collection and an illustrated kids' book are first and second on the list — on the strength of pre-orders, since both titles won't be out until September.

January 21, 2021
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  • Petra Mayer
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.

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A Different Day: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 2

Poetry helps us express feelings that don't fit neatly into sentences; confusion and fear but also hope and joy. Here's the second installment of our look ahead at the most exciting poetry of 2021.

January 21, 2021
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  • Phillip B. Williams,
  • Ken Chen,
  • and 2 more
Poet Amanda Gorman speaks at the inauguration of U.S. President Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

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'Not Broken But Simply Unfinished': Poet Amanda Gorman Calls For A Better America

The 22-year-old composed a poem, "The Hill We Climb," that acknowledges the recent insurrection attempt, but turns resolutely toward hope. "The new dawn blooms," she writes.

January 20, 2021
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  • Camila Domonoske
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Glimmers Of Hope: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 1

This year, critic Craig Morgan Teicher says American poetry has become too big for just one person to cover, so he's invited five colleagues to bring their own perspectives to our 2021 poetry preview.

January 11, 2021
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  • Phillip B. Williams,
  • Ana Božičević,
  • and 3 more
Poet torrin a. greathouse

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Poetry Escapes The Beauty Bind In 'Wound From The Mouth Of A Wound'

In her debut collection, poet torrin a. greathouse explores what it means to be both trans and disabled, and the ways beauty can be a trap for trans women — so why not write towards ugliness?

December 28, 2020
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma
With countless lights, Christmassy illuminated man-high trees and reindeer decorate the entrance of a shop

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Opinion: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas in 2020

With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, NPR's Scott Simon updates "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for 2020.

December 21, 2020
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  • Scott Simon
Irish poet William Butler Yeats circa 1920.

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Opinion: Reading William Butler Yeats 100 Years Later

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today.

November 28, 2020
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  • Scott Simon

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'The Voice Of Sheila Chandra' Echoes Through Time And Space

Kazim Ali's new poetry collection was inspired by the story of Sheila Chandra, a well-known singer rendered voiceless by an incurable neurological condition.

October 18, 2020
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma
From left: Deng Ge is a rap mogul who became a lockdown activist. Poet Sally Wen Mao Mao uses her art to express her anger about how Chinese people are being portrayed in the pandemic. Writer and comic artist Laura Gao, living in the U.S., has a video chat with her grandmother Zhou Nai, who's happy to have a supply of mooncakes, a popular Chinese dessert.

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  • Global Health

How 3 Women From Wuhan Cope With COVID-19: Rap, Poetry And Mooncakes

We interview a rap mogul (turned community volunteer), an author focused on a nine-tailed fox and a grandmother with a sense of humor. They're part of our special report on women facing the pandemic.

October 14, 2020
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  • NPR Special Report

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  • Global Health

Portraits Of Resilience: How 19 Women Around The Globe Face The Pandemic

Women often bear a heavier burden at times of crisis. They take care of the kids, the house, the survival of families. NPR photographed and interviewed 19 women over 3 weeks. Here are their stories.

October 11, 2020
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  • NPR Special Report

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For Poet Maggie Smith, An Ending Was The Beginning Of Her New Book

Smith says she started writing Keep Moving as her marriage was ending. It began as a series of affirmations she wrote for herself on Twitter; she found that the posts were helping other people too.

October 09, 2020
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  • Mary Louise Kelly
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