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How Ukrainian writers are processing war through poetry 

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Many Ukrainians are turning to poetry as a symbol of patriotism and resistance. Some say it’s a creative platform to express their feelings about the war or to stir a degree of national pride during wartime. 

Ira Lightman at a poetry reading in Manchester, UK, at an event organized by Poets and Players. Lightman moonlights as a poetry plagiarism detective. 

This poetry detective tracks down word thieves. But are they all plagiarists?

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Marge Piercy

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Hobo Poet

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Novelists Susan and Eliza Minot on Creative Siblings

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Galway Kinnell

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A brother and sister find solace in William Butler Yeats’ Lake Isle of Innisfree.

Quang Bao’s Vietnam Homecoming

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Twenty-four years after arriving in the U.S., a young Vietnamese-American poet returned to Saigon with his father. Quang Bao reflects on how the visit forced him to redefine his notion of home.

Beat Speak

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The beat musician David Amram tells us how the Beats influenced the way we live and talk today.

Actor Simon McBurney on Memory

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Kurt Andersen talks with actor, director, and playwright SimonMcBurney, director and star of the current play Mnemonic, about the intimate connections between art and memory in theater, architecture, poetry, and music. McBurney is the artistic director and co-founder of the London-based Theatre de Complicite. Over the last several years he and members of theater company […]

Poet Lucille Clifton

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The poet Lucille Clifton communicates the richness and complexity of memories, both personal and public.