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Alice Notley’s Prophecies
In the new Spring issue of The Paris Review, we published an Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley, conducted by Hannah ...
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The Art of the Libretto: John Adams
As I mentioned, I had the image of the birth of our own children in mind, and I had the same feeling that you do, that so ...
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Making of a Poem: Maureen N. McLane on “Haptographic Interface”
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Maureen N. McLane’s ...
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On the Distinctiveness of Writing in China
People’s spirits resemble a patch of grass struggling to grow in the intermittently light and dark area beneath partially ...
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Bad Dinner Guest
Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That is Happening, which was ...
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“Choose Hope or Despair”: On John Shoptaw
When I first read these poems and was trying to describe them to a friend, I said they felt cosmic, even though they often ...
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“Throwing Yourself Into the Dark”: A Conversation with Anne Carson
Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she ...
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Encyclopedia Brown: A Story for My Brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman
“What do you do with the old magazines when the new issues come out?” I asked the librarian. “At the end of the year, we donate them to neighborhood schools so kids can cut them up and make collages,” ...