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Jeff Bezos says poetry without rhyming is easy – but it’s not that simple

When Jeff Bezos defended major layoffs at The Washington Post last week, he reached for poetry. Pressed on why he would not simply subsidise the paper, he argued payment was a “signal” of relevance: “If people won’t pay for our product, we’re not doing, it’s not a good enough product…

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Poetry Prompts for Detained Children

Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom...

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Kimiko Hahn wins $100,000 award from Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement

Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of poetry's most lucrative prizes

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Poetry has a new editor — and now a new issue. It’s time to give a fresh look at this important Chicago magazine.

CHICAGO — The new editor of Poetry magazine, one of the city’s most important and influential publications, is Adrian Matejka, a great poet and a good guy.

Chicago Tribune

Meet Adrian Matejka, the first Black editor to lead Poetry magazine in its 110-year history

CHICAGO — Adrian Matejka, Indiana’s poet laureate from 2018-2019, is still trying to figure out Chicago’s bus system. He laughs about missing his bus heading to the Poetry Foundation on Superior Street because a new neighbor recognized him and said, “I love poetry, and heard that you’re the new editor.…

Chicago Tribune

Friday essay: writing poems across oceans, cultures and emails – John Kinsella on creative collaboration

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. On commission, and under the eye of the public, he painted the giant Queen Elizabeth for the 1954 ‘Royal Visit’ and the giant Captain Cook (with map of ‘New Holland’) for the 200th ‘celebrations’. These lines, read on their own,…

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Adrian Matejka will be first Black editor of Poetry magazine, which faced criticism on diversity

Published in Chicago, it’s one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications. Matejka, a former Indiana poet laureate, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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Adrian Matejka will be first Black editor of Poetry magazine

Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications, will for the first time have a Black editor

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