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- By now, you’ve probably heard about Jill Bialosky’s memoir Poetry Will Save Your Life, for which she “borrowed” paragraphs from several other sources. By far, the best take on this whole debacle has come from Talya Zax at Forward. (HT: A. M. Juster)
- “Poetry is another level of complexity—communities creating a higher level of meaning about the beauty of the world—and it is disappearing”: on the group of researchers and linguists who are trying to save some of the world’s rarest languages from extinction.
- In honor of the centenary of Australian poet James McAuley, The Sydney Review of Books published this very long-read about his life and career.
- Brenton Dickieson from A Pilgrim in Narnia is starting a new series on his blog, about words and phrases coined by C. S. Lewis. He began with this post on Lewis’s word “bulverism.”
- “How do you see the role of the writer in today’s society?” “‘To see everything, to hear everything, to understand everything'”: the Los Angeles Review of Books always has great interviews, the latest of which is with Russian author, poet, and professor Dmitry Bykov.
- A rather old but interesting article: Justice John Paul Stevens felt so strongly about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays that he wrote an opinion on it. (HT: Hannah Hedgehog)
- In a segment from BBC Radio 3, here’s Don Paterson talking about Seamus Heaney’s poem “The Underground,” one of the “poems I wish I had written.”
- “Dear God, I cannot love Thee the way I want to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon.” Flannery O’Connor’s college diary is a thing of beauty.
- And finally, the poet Kaveh Akbar, after polling Twitter, wrote a list of 137 writers and artists and the words that they “own,” or rather, the words for which they’re best-known. (Not to brag, but I’m the one who suggested “plums” for William Carlos Williams. ;))
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