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	NEW POEMS, BIOS & ESSAYS

	Jorie Graham: audio & interview Poems About Poetry: Ars Poetica ABCs: Rock & Roll and Poetry Alexander Pope: bio and poems Lord Byron: bio and epic excerpts Notes on Ekphrasis by Alfred Corn Mary Jo Bang in Conversation Li-Young Lee in Conversation Dante: bio and selected cantos Poems about the Underworld


	THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

	Spotlight Poet César Vallejo Born in Peru, Vallejo's second poetry collection, Trilce, placed Latin American poetry at the center of the Western cultural tradition in the 1920s. Spotlight Poem Strawberry on the Drawbridge by Matthea Harvey I tried eating one there on the bridge’s fault line, listening out for / the dispatcher’s radio... Spotlight Audio Ground Swell by Mark Jarman Spotlight Essay Great Anthology: Against Forgetting Organized by historical tragedies of the twentieth century, these poems deal with events ranging from Armenian Genocide to the pro-democratic demonstrations in China.


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