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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eileen Myles. Photo: Shae Detar.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re turning our attention to graduation season. Read Eileen Myles\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, as well as David Lehman\u2019s poem \u201cCommencement<\/a>\u201d and Venita Blackburn\u2019s short story \u201cFam<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eileen Myles, The Art of Poetry No. 99<\/a>
\nIssue no. 214 (Fall 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do. People loved to throw around the word rigorous<\/em> in the eighties. I\u2019d go bleh<\/em>. When I started to pull something out of the pool of incoherence, it was exciting in itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Commencement<\/a>
\nBy David Lehman
\nIssue no. 158 (Spring\u2013Summer 2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

They\u2019re calling old people seniors
\nshort for senior citizens but it\u2019s as though
\nthey\u2019re still in college and can look forward
\nto graduate school at Purgatory State
\nor the University of the Damned and
\nI can see this poem is intent on being Catholic
\nthough it started out agnostic \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fam<\/a>
\nBy Venita Blackburn
\nIssue no. 226 (Fall 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

My lil sister\/niece\/granddaughter\/baby cousin doesn\u2019t know she\u2019s pretty, so she asks everybody, one post at a time. Her mom showed up at her high school graduation, no one had seen her in eight years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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