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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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This week at\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>,\u00a0we\u2019re celebrating the release of\u00a0The Paris Review Podcast<\/em>\u00a0Season 3 and lowering the paywall on four pieces featured in the\u00a0first two episodes<\/a>. Read on for Robert Frost\u2019s\u00a0Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Yohanca Delgado\u2019s short story \u201cThe Little Widow from the Capital<\/a>,\u201d Antonella Anedda\u2019s poem \u201cHistoriae 2<\/a>,\u201d and Molly McCully Brown\u2019s essay \u201cIf You Are Permanently Lost<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

Interview<\/em>
\nRobert Frost, The Art of Poetry No. 2<\/a>
\nIssue no. 24, (Summer-Fall 1960)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0So often they ask me\u2014I just been all around, you know, been out West, been all around\u2014and so often they ask me, \u201cWhat is a modern poet?\u201d I dodge it often, but I said the other night, \u201cA modern poet must be one that speaks to modern people no matter when he lived in the world. That would be one way of describing it. And it would make him more modern, perhaps, if he were alive and speaking to modern people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/em>
\nThe Little Widow from the Capital<\/a>
\nBy Yohanca Delgado
\nIssue no. 236 (Spring 2021)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

The widow arrived at LaGuardia on a Sunday, but the rumors about the woman who had rented a big apartment, sight unseen, had taken an earlier flight. We had already reviewed, on many occasions and in hushed tones, in the quiet that comes after long hours of visiting, what little we knew about the widow and her dead husband.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Poetry<\/em>
\nHistoriae 2<\/a>
\nBy Antonella Anedda
\nIssue no. 231 (Winter 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

The book rotted by the rain, the clay that\u2019s slipped,
\nthe earth screeches, plates collapse,
\nthe walls lose their grip on the paintings,
\nnothing is aligned like the planets we think we understand.
\nWithin the shock announced this morning by the howling dogs
\ntheir muzzles pointing toward an imaginary swarm of bees
\nthe floor slides toward the void. We, too,
\nrun away in the wake of a memory of the species
\n(oh, storm made of fire and basil,
\nof lamps and beds askew
\nand you, mountain, gulping water and air)
\nwhile the house breaks up and disappears.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nonfiction<\/em>
\nIf You Are Permanently Lost<\/a>
\nBy Molly McCully Brown
\nIssue no. 231 (Winter 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

Even on a much smaller scale, space makes no sense to me. I walk all the way around the perimeter of a room to reach a door that\u2019s immediately to my right, and I set my glass down half an inch from the edge of the table with such frequency that anyone who knows me well gets used to nudging it back again and again over the course of an evening in this small, choreographed two-step.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0subscribe<\/a>! In\u00a0addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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