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#PoFest 2024 Headliners: PSNY's Poetry Picks

This post features poems from each of the Headliners of the 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival: Ilya Kaminsky, Safia Elhillo, Kazim Ali & Katie Farris.

#PoFest 2024 Headliners: PSNY's Poetry Picks
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PSNY's Place to Write #1

Carve out some you-time and head down to this month’s PTW spot & give this Prompt a free write.

PSNY's Place to Write #1
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Black History Always (Not Just a Month) - ...

Although Black History Month is coming to a close, we must remember that the influence  of Black art and culture in the poetry world and the world beyond deserves acknowledgment and  utmost appreciation 24/7/365.

Black History Always (Not Just a Month) - Written by Faith-Marie McHenry
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twenty-one ways to prosper as a child of a ...

twenty-one ways to prosper as a child of a dying world | Clickbait is a blog designed to shamelessly attract attention to poetry. Using devices typically reserved for online “clickbait” like listicles, how-to’s, trending topics, SEO, hashtags, hyperlinks, hyperbole, sensationalism, puff, and fluff, the poets at The Poetry Society of New York are having a little fun.

twenty-one ways to prosper as a child of a dying world
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Ten Poet Pairs Who Would Have Been Best Friends ...

Ten Poet Pairs Who Would Have Been Best Friends If They Were Born in the Same Period | Clickbait is a blog designed to shamelessly attract attention to poetry. Using devices typically reserved for online “clickbait” like listicles, how-to’s, trending topics, SEO, hashtags, hyperlinks, hyperbole, sensationalism, puff, and fluff, the poets at The Poetry Society of New York are having a little fun.

Ten Poet Pairs Who Would Have Been Best Friends If They Were Born in the Same Period

Book Reviews

Clickbait Review: How To B*tch to Strangers on a Park Bench

Clickbait Review: How To B*tch to Strangers on a Park Bench

Each line in Popular Longing seems to drift up from the presence of a dear friend seated right beside you, laughing at how strange and sad life turned out to be. Published this year by Copper Canyon Press, Natalie Shapero’s new collection names the desires, fears, and inadequacies only those closest to us seem to understand, but all of us silently witness and endure. True to its name, Popular Longings is a study of what people want: “people'' observed in the broadest terms by the humdrum pastimes that ferry them through life (jobs, grocery stores, art galleries, tourist attractions, funerals) and “longings” presented in their crudest, most accessible forms—universal, sordid, and thoroughly commercialized (the new restaurant to try, the flowers he didn’t get you, the small town historical reenactment, the jewelry you’ll be buried in). Reading the collection feels like people-watching with a brilliant cynic who knows you better than yourself, and can effortlessly speak to the symbolic meaning of what surrounds you. Natalie Shapero is that stranger in the park you’re glad you happened to sit beside.

Clickbait Review: Joshua Beckman's "Animal Days" + The Thud Thud Thud Resounding

Clickbait Review: Joshua Beckman's "Animal Days" + The Thud Thud Thud Resounding

How fragile is the word “human”? In Joshua Beckman’s new collection, Animal Days , it appears more vulnerable than we would like to admit. Animal Days, published this year by Wave Books, breaks down the syntax through which we compose ourselves as creatures set apart. Branching distinctions, recited by habit, between subject and object, human and inhuman, are all scraped and shorn away from the text, allowing us to reach into the darkness beneath words and encounter a strangeness buried deep in our bodies. Porous, silent, damp—a movement barely sensed: the parts of life from which we’d normally recoil enter our awareness, like the pulse rushing in our wrist—a foreign feeling, always present, but suddenly recognized. Winding along the roots of our grammar like a speckled rot, Beckman’s poems moisten and decay our assumptions, revealing what we are when we are no longer ourselves.

Clickbait Review: Valzhyna Mort's Collected Body

Clickbait Review: Valzhyna Mort's Collected Body

Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort’s first collection written in English, Collected Body, is a complex tapestry of characters and their familial stories. In the collection, readers are constantly threatened by a sense of imminent death. Yet, instead of an end, death here becomes a means of union.

Clickbait Review: Nathan Jurgenson's The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

Clickbait Review: Nathan Jurgenson's The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

By now it is no novel question to ask what the humanities owe the sciences, or indeed the sciences the humanities. The specture of the automaton is as old as the golem, which is to say as ancient as monotheism: this social anxiety regarding the essence of our humanity and its relationship to technology predates our modern conceptions of science. However, the meteoric rise in the social, political, and economic influence of technology companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook demands that we continue reforming not only our answers to this question but our material responses to it. Social media theorist, editor emeritus of The New Inquiry, and sociologist at Snap Inc., Nathan Jurgenson addresses these disciplines via cyborg hybridity in his book The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media.