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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 30:: B. BATCHELOR on DANEZ SMITH

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 30:: B. BATCHELOR on DANEZ SMITH

What poet or poetry groupie doesn’t already know the name Danez Smith? They don’t need me to champion them into another hundred fans or…
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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 29 :: ELIZABETH HAWES on SU HWANG

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 29 :: ELIZABETH HAWES on SU HWANG

I met her in a class she was teaching for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, one of those sampler tutorials on poetry, prose, and memoir.
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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: JOE VANDERFORD on GIACONDA BELLI

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: JOE VANDERFORD on GIACONDA BELLI

Before a modicum of triumph, there was passion, pain, exile and the death of so many loved ones for the Nicaraguan, Sandinistan poet and…
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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27:: VIVIAN D. NIXON on SONIA SANCHEZ

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27:: VIVIAN D. NIXON on SONIA SANCHEZ

In my small hometown only 2 out of 100 people were Black. The 1970’s literary canon wasn’t helpful. My ancestry was hidden from me in…
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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 26 :: ROBBIE POLLOCK on KENYATTA EMMANUEL

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 26 :: ROBBIE POLLOCK on KENYATTA EMMANUEL

The world hasn’t heard much of the music and writing of my mentor, friend, and collaborator Kenyatta Emmanuel. In person, Kenyatta can be…
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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 25 :: P.M. DUNNE on REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 25 :: P.M. DUNNE on REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS

Any serious conversation about poetry today must include Reginald Dwayne Betts, a man whose no-nonsense verse reflects, as it once augured…
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10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 24 :: JUSTIN ROVILLOS MONSON on PATRICK ROSAL

10TH ANNUAL(AND FINAL) NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 24 :: JUSTIN ROVILLOS MONSON on PATRICK ROSAL

A poetics, when created correctly — or, really, with heart — is a field full of misfits and martyrs, hustlers and prophets, trying to find…
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