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| | For the past 30 years, the Academy of American Poets has celebrated April as National Poetry Month, highlighting the social influence of poets and the power of literature in verse. Notably, this year also marks the country's 250th anniversary of its founding. Today's issue features an interview with Joshua Bennett about his book We (the People of the United States) and how such a powerful pronoun spirals outward from the tight cohorts of family to the broad collective of a nation. And we're also sharing "He Said My Name," a poem supercharged with environmental energy, excerpted from the new collection by Jake Skeets, Horses. April may be half over, but poetry deserves to be fêted all year long!
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 | | Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry | | | Ada Limón |
| | | To be read in the sunshine of a single afternoon and again whenever a reminder is needed, Ada Limón's Against Breaking argues in favor of the good and beautiful found in poetry.
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| | We (the People of the United States) | | | Joshua Bennett |
| | | Poet Joshua Bennett's collection is a fireworks display on a hot July night: a stunning display full of light and sound and color.
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| | Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir | | | Leise Hook |
| | | In her moving debut graphic memoir, Leise Hook shares the process of her evolving sense of self with readers.
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| | A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic: Or, Like Lightning in an Umbrella Storm | | | Philip C. Stead |
| | | Philip Stead creates a masterclass in nonsense world-building and humorous plot development with his first solo middle-grade novel.
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| | | | | | In a gritty world bordering on hopelessness, a man and a boy form a friendship that may just save them both.
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| | | | Devi S. Laskar's dynamic novel Midnight, at the War impressively captures a journalist more capable of reporting on global crises than confronting her own personal chaos.
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| | | | Mai Nguyen's wry, moving sophomore novel follows a recently bereaved mother who begins working at a funeral home after her infant daughter's death.
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| | | | This exhilarating novel by acclaimed storyteller Semple features a New York philosopher who finds herself at the center of both an international art heist and a romance with a mysterious stranger.
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| | | | An incredible and moving debut novel centered on one family's dysfunction that probes on questions of familial belonging and duty, immigration and identity, harm and healing.
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| | | | Family memory and literary allusion infuse a tender poetry collection about growing up under dictatorship, immigrating to the U.S., and life's stages and sorrows.
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| | | | The 45 poems of Megan Gannon's refined memoir in verse commemorate the challenges and joys of interracial family life during turbulent times.
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| | | | A mustachioed mouse and moose embark on an absurd mustache adventure in this hilarious picture book perfect for emerging readers.
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| | | | This psychologically harrowing novel follows a vulnerable teen as she navigates a breakup and the grief-fueled disassociation that ensues.
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| | | | A British adult romance author makes her U.S. YA debut with this dramatic whodunit among the rich and powerful on a private tropical island.
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| | | | This picture book folk tale by two Māori creatives invites everyone to use their dreams as source material for original creations.
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| | | | Readers explore the busy, inner workings of an international airport in this entertaining and visually captivating nonfiction picture book for young readers.
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| | | _Rog_Walker.jpg) Poet Joshua Bennett's new collection, We (The People of the United States), is a fireworks display of light and sound and color, considering both family and country in a book-length poem about collectives. It's the perfect way to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, and in today's interview, Bennett elaborates on what it feels like to write a poem and what it means to live in poetic times. (continued)
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| | | On Instagram, poet and psychotherapist Jane Seskin, author of Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65: Poems (Tallfellow Press), reflects on what it's like to have a poem published in Women's Day in her 80s after publishing five poems in the magazine in the '80s. "There's room for a second act."
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| | |  In celebration of April as Poetry Month, our issue today includes reviews of recent works and an interview with a poet. But we also wanted to include something extra special to mark the occasion. So please enjoy this piece excerpted from Horses, the new collection by Jake Skeets, an award-winning poet from the Navajo Nation who teaches at the University of Oklahoma. (continued)
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