"A Century of Yale Younger Poets"
Carl Phillips, judge since 2010 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the oldest literary prize in the United States, unpacks the unique perspectives this role offers. "I’ve been surprised at how the majority of the manuscripts I see resist giving any kind of offense—they’re well-behaved, polite, in terms of content and style. But I don’t go to poetry for good manners."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on Forcing the State to Remember
"In using the state’s archive against itself, in forcing the state to remember its many forms of violence against indigenous people, in releasing ancestral voices from their archival confines, Harkin counters oppression with 'infinite ways to imagine/ infinite possibilities to/ transform/ beyond this colonial-archive-box.' Her inventive and necessary interventions into Aboriginal Affairs records offer back to the state its own language not as a narcissistic exercise in nation-building but rather as an indictment of its alleged successes." |
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