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Let It Be: The Lilac in US Poetry

“Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love,” sings Nina Simone, trying to delay the loss of something already gone.
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A Conversation with Parneshia Jones

When I was asked to interview poet Parneshia Jones, I was intrigued. I had come across her book, Vessel, in the library of my graduate..
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In Conversation: Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Dustin Parsons

Earlier this spring, TRUE asked my wife, the poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and I to interview each other about life, writing, and marriage. We..
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Reusing the Muse

As though light broke us apart. As though light came with the rubble of words, though we die among the husks of remembering. —Ruth Stone,..
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On Writing the Other

In a recent blog post for Ploughshares, Emilia Phillips described how the news had begun its tangle through her subconscious like kudzu, but she felt..
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Give Yourself to the Falling Sky

There’s an anime I watched as a child, and in the final scene a colossal asteroid plummets toward earth. Soldiers on both sides, inside their..