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Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

The Editor of “Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | July 28, 2025

John B. King on the Career Memoir

John B. King on the Career Memoir

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Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

Katie Yee on the Writing Lessons of a Great Prank

“Both pranking and writing are exercises in careful observation.”

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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