Louis Cecile
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Poetry Rx: Nevertheless, Live
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Claire Schwartz is on the line.<p><i>Dear Poets,</i><p><i>Is there a word for the feeling when you know the wise thing</i> …
LiteraturePoem of the Day: The Bones of August
i.<br>Not to go backward, <br>not to watch the women<br>peddling in reverse past the church, <br>the priest in his black habit <br>receding from the chapel door.<br>Not to …
ArchaeologyPoem of the Day: Precious Lord
1<br>Not sweet sixteen not even sweet sixteen and she’s moaning<br>not even sixteen years old and she’s moaning<br>not even sweet sixteen and she’s moaning …
Aretha FranklinWhere Is Poetry Now?
This year, The Paris Review will be engaging in an exciting mission to expand its reaches through the world of poetry. For each of our next four issues—fall, winter, spring, and summer—our editor Emily Nemens will work in tandem with four quite different, highly esteemed, poets to find and select …
LiteratureParis Review - Ishmael Reed, The Art of Poetry No. 100
Interviewed by Chris Jackson<p>Issue 218, Fall 2016<p>Reed, 2015. “Combative Writing has always been our tradition, even when we try to avoid it.”<p>I met Ishmael Reed at the Bowery Hotel, in New York, where he was staying for a couple of nights with his wife, the dancer and educator Carla Blank, and his …
This poet captures the madness and injustice of our burning planet
“Just so you know, my 11-month-old daughter could wake up at any time,” the poet Craig Santos Perez whispered when he answered the phone. She did …
LiteratureBoat Poets on Tour
Apples and Snakes Presents: Boat Poets on Tour<p>Poetry on a boat in collaboration with Boat Poets.<p>Apples and Snakes is excited to be supporting this …
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