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Letter Writing: Find Your Voice
Amy Robinson had wanted to write to her favorite poet, Eavan Boland, who died on April 27, 2020, but the letter never made it to the mail.
She writes, “A large part of the cutting sadness of your death is that now, in global quarantine, your clear, quiet poems of interior space, candles and knives, women’s voices, and kitchen gardens have even more meaning and heft. We need the tender attentiveness of your words.”
Read four of Boland’s poems: “The Poets,” “Moths,” “The Lost Land” and “IV Quarantine” from New Collected Poems (2009).
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Awarded this Week: Congratulations, 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners
Colson Whitehead won the Fiction Prize for his novel The Nickel Boys. Read his discussion of John Carpenter, Fantastic Voyage, and writers block. Kudos to Jericho Brown, whose The Tradition received the Poetry Prize. Read one of his poems, "Correspondence,” and browse the full list of prize winners and finalists.
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