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By Shane McCrae, Monica Youn, and OthersIn this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours.
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The Art of Distance No. 11
By The Paris ReviewThis week we’re sharing interviews with Black writers who have provided us guidance and inspiration, and are distributing a list of resources.
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Feminize Your Canon
By The Paris ReviewOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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Staff Picks: Gabbert, Guzzler, and Greene
By The Paris ReviewThis week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ reads Elisa Gabbert, Shirley Hazzard, and more.
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The Crane Wife
By CJ HauserTen days after I called off my engagement I was supposed to go on a scientific expedition to study the whooping crane on the gulf coast of Texas.
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The Paris Review Podcast Season 2
By The Paris Review and StitcherToni Morrison, Philip Roth, Jason Alexander, Charlotte Rampling, Danez Smith, Sarah Manguso, Salman Rushdie, Molly Ringwald, Jenny Slate, Devendra Banhart, and more
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The Art of Poetry No. 107
By Nathaniel MackeyMackey in Cork, Ireland, 2005. Courtesy of the author In an era when poetry is increasingly compressed to fit our iPhone screens, Nathaniel Mackey has been writing two astonishing long poems—“Mu” and Song of the Andoumboulou—across multiple books for the past thirty-five years. “Mu” and Song of the Andoumboulou are two ongoing sequences beaded with his insights on cosmology, grief, ancestry, migration, and black life. The utterance mu suggests “mouth,” “myth,” but also “muse,” whereas Mackey …
