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"This ingenious picture of ritual educational humiliation would be a great choice for the National Curriculum, if its constructors want students to come alive to poetry. Not a chance." Helen Vendler on Simon Armitage • The New Republic
"For the first time since the early 19th century, American poetry may be about to run out of greatness." David Orr • The New York Times
"Poetry is its own answer, its own end." Peter Porter talks to Sarah Crown • The Guardian
"In our dreams, Anna Freud said, we can have our eggs cooked exactly as we want them, but we can’t eat them." Adam Phillips • London Review of Books
"All there is is confusion, pretense, contradiction, and instinct." Michael Hofmann • Poetry


New poems

W. S. DiPiero Threepenny Review

Arda Collins A Public Space

Susan Stewart The New Yorker

Nick Flynn Harvard Review



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