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Susan Stewart: National Poetry Month
In honor of National Poetry Month, PUP author and series editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Susan Stewart gives an overview of the series and talks about explains why, for a poet,...
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Dora Malech on Stet: Poems
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Dora Malech writes about the unique pleasure of using words to express yourself. Included below are recordings of her reading poems from her collection in the...
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Austin Smith: Flyover Country
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Austin Smith has provided recordings of a selection of poems from his latest collection with the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets: Flyover Country....
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Fiona Sze-Lorrain: The Ruined Elegance
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Fiona Sze-Lorrain has recorded Given Silence from The Ruined Elegance, her collection of poems in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets series....
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Poet Austin Smith on Flyover Country
Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of...
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Dora Malech on her new collection, Stet
In Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create art out of a life in flux, to reckon with the body’s bounds, and to...
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On Influence: Robert Hayden in Dakar
After having a conversation about a novel I’ve since forgotten, my undergraduate literature professor at the University of Michigan gave me a paperback copy of Robert Hayden’s Collected Poems. Perhaps...
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Robyn Creswell on City of Beginnings
City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of...
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Myronn Hardy on Origin: “Birches”
It began with that set of Encyclopedia Britannicas on the tall family room shelves. Those maroon and navy bound books that had everything in them. The volumes I often used to lookup random things:...
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Miller Oberman: On Mentorship
When I was sixteen, like many teenagers, I worked in a corporate coffee shop in a corporate bookstore; I won’t name them here. In that bookstore I started to read contemporary poetry. I read everything...
View ArticlePoetry Editor Anne Savarese Celebrates National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is the perfect occasion for us to celebrate the many poets we have been lucky enough to publish through the years in our two poetry series, both of which began in the early 1970s,...
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Dora Malech: Poetic Influence and Poetic Constraint, Ex Post Facto
The last question in W. S. Merwin’s gnomic Q & A poem “Some Last Questions” is “Who are the compatriots.” In the process of writing my most recent collection, Stet: Poems (Princeton University...
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