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Essay
The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.
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Insights from the 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellows
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p1Firespitter: On Jayne Cortez
For Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.
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Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...
A youth for Jane with ardour sighed,
The maid with sparkling eye;
But to his vows she still replied...
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