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Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including_ The Absurd Man_ (2020),_ Roll Deep_ (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn _(2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: _Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson _edited by Amor Kohli. A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in _American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry London, and World Literature Today. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

KAZIM ALI was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Ananda Devi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Davidson College, St. Mary's College of California, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.

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• Readings from Justin Rigamonti and Nomi Stone
• A Tyehimba Jess reading and other memorable readings – what makes a reading memorable?
• Some summer poems like: Ada Limón’s “Sundown All The Damage Done”
• “Mock Orange” by Louise Glück
• “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright
• Recommendations including: Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Janelle Monae’s new one The Age of Pleasure, Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, and translations by Jennifer Grotz

• the new issue of APR with Shane McCrae

• An appreciation of Elaine Equi – “The Lonely Parade” in this issue, and “Sometimes I Get Distracted” 

• Plus, a chat with Hannah re: recommending poems to those new to poetry. Poems mentioned:

• Elizabeth Bishop “Filling Station,” 

• Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,” 

• Robert Hass “Meditation at Lagunitas,” 

• Angel Nafis “Woo Woo Roll Deep”  

• Marie Howe, “What the Living Do” 

• Books mentioned: Airea D. Matthews, Bread & Circus 

• Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl 

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· APR's Kunitz Prize

· Frank O'Hara

· and new books on the horizon.

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Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection POPULAR LONGING. Her previous collections are HARD CHILD, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and NO OBJECT, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.

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• Megan Fernandes’ “Love Poem”
• Gabrielle Bates’ “Salmon”

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— Shamar Hill’s The Walls Became the World All Around (read by the author)

— Alison C. Rollins’ springtime again (read by the author)

— and Jack Gilbert interviewed by Forrest Gander

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- Sarah Blake's Let's Not Live on Earth - Hanif Abdurraqib's A Fortune for Your Disaster - Sharon Olds’ The Father: Poems - Amaud Johnson’s Imperial Liquor … and more. All of which, by the way, are available via APR’s new Bookshop page.

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Today on the show, we talk about first books from favorite poets, and how they’re both magic and revealing. Then, we chat with Chessy Normile, winner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her first book of poems, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, was chosen by our guest judge, Li-Young Lee. The book will be published in September, 2020.

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Today on the show, we hear from Alex Dimitrov, who reads from his fantastic poem, “Love,” while Philip Metres’ “Mixtape for My Twenties” provides a jumping-off point for a group discussion that includes Eileen Myles, C.K. Williams, and more. Later, Alex and Elizabeth sit down for a one-on-one interview that you’ve got to hear.

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- The National Book Award nominations for poetry

- Wave Books' ten-year anniversary of Maggie Nelson's landmark Bluets

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