TODAY: In 1896, Na Hye-Sok, Korean poet, writer, feminist, painter, educator, and journalist is born.
- It’s Poetry Day on Lit Hub: Jay Parini investigates if Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming,” was really about Donald Trump; Charles Bernstein on Larry Eigner: how an obscure poet with cerebral palsy influenced an entire generation; Loma calls for a new kind of literary activism; From Tommy Pico’s book-length poem, IRL; “Every poem I write is about Ted Cruz”: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague on poetry, Santería, and not feeling Latino “enough”; Remembering the great C.D. Wright and how she used poetry to address injustice; 30 contemporary poets you should be reading; Five Pacific Islander poets: a folio curated by Craig Santos Perez; Two new poetry podcasts for your listening pleasure. | Literary Hub
- How science fiction redefines who we are and what we are becoming. | Literary Hub
- We’re just living in these floating fragmentations: On Eileen Myles and the feminists she has influenced. | T Magazine
- “My goal isn’t soft multiculturalism, but rather to convey a richer and fuller sense of what literature is, what the possibilities are, and to share the voices that often get excluded or silenced when we speak of ‘literature’ and ‘writing.’” An interview with John Keene. | Guernica
- A writer can never be on the side of killing: Syrian poet Adonis on revolution, religion, and renaissances. | NYRB
- “Language is more direct, open, unself-conscious, precise, and human. It doesn’t belong to me anymore but to the atmosphere, and this makes me happy.” Henri Cole on having his poetry projected by Jenny Holzer. | The New Yorker
- Of Gertrude Stein and the redundancy of war: On Don Mee Choi’s collection of poetry, prose, and opera, Hardly War. | BOMB Magazine
- “[Alexander Lukashenko] stated publicly that I decry the peoples of Russia and Belarus in my work… Vladimir Putin didn’t congratulate me either.” An interview with 2015 Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. | The Guardian
- Li-Young Lee on poetic consciousness, finite minds recognizing eternal things, and how teaching is like bleeding. | Los Angles Review of Books
- More (literal) Harper Lee drama: A report from the first stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird by the nonprofit Lee created. | The New York Times
Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: Copperfield’s Books · The first graphic novel about the war in Iraq by a veteran · The musical genius: from Justin Tussing’s Vexation Lullaby
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