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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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Carl Phillips in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 2018. Photo courtesy of Reston Allen.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re closing out National Poetry Month with a celebration of the poets in our archive. Read on for Carl Phillips\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>; \u201cEclogue<\/a>,\u201d a rare piece of prose from May Swenson; and Nin Andrews\u2019s poem \u201cPoets on Poets<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and read the entire archive? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And for as long as we\u2019re flattening the curve,\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0will be sending out a new weekly newsletter, The Art of Distance, featuring unlocked archival selections, dispatches from the\u00a0Daily<\/em>, and efforts from our peer organizations. Read the latest edition here<\/a>, and then\u00a0sign up for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Carl Phillips, The Art of Poetry No. 103<\/a>
\nIssue no. 228 (Spring 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

I tell people, especially if I\u2019m giving a reading, it\u2019s okay to let the words wash over them, the way one experiences abstract art. I\u2019m not trained in visual art. I often see things in a museum and don\u2019t know what to make of them, but I still have an experience, a response to what I can see. Likewise, I don\u2019t think poems have to have easy translation. I believe strongly in emotional and psychological narratives. I think of many of my poems as emotional gestures. Context isn\u2019t always essential\u2014or maybe it\u2019s that I resist context as an absolute. I like what happens when context begins to wobble a bit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Eclogue<\/a>
\nBy May Swenson
\nIssue no. 10 (Fall 1955)<\/em><\/p>\n

The property must belong to someone: I come upon berry patches and fruit trees in the general wildness, and tracks of cattle in the boggy grass by a stream, but there are no fences and the last farmhouse I passed was a mile away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Poets on Poets<\/a>
\nBy Nin Andrews
\nIssue no. 154 (Spring 2000)<\/em><\/p>\n

………………………<\/span>notes from AWP<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014I\u2019m pretending not to see him so I can eat my lunch.
\n\u2014But who reads that shit? About as true to life as a
\nvelvet grape.
\n\u2014I think he judges poetry with his dick. And poets, too.
\n\u2014What\u2019s the scoop on her? Is that her husband, or is he
\njust hanging out in her hotel room for the duration?
\n\u2014Personally I prefer not to think about his dick.
\n\u2014His latest work, especially the poems about his dead father,
\nbegin to sound human.
\n\u2014Think of it as a conductor\u2019s baton.
\n\u2014Granted, she wins all the prizes, but talk about grandiose.
\n\u2014The latest inductee into the goddess cult. Like back in the
\nsixties when sex and war were the metaphors for
\nconsciousness-raising.
\n\u2014I bet they\u2019re really confessional, and she\u2019s a total
\npervert too.
\n\u2014He knows how to network, who to climb, and when.
\nTiming is everything \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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