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In honor of National Poetry Month, the Poetry Foundation will offer free copies of the April 2013 issue of Poetry. Sign up by March 24th!
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INTERVIEWER: Do you read much contemporary poetry these days?
SARAH RUHL: A little bit … as much as I read anything. I have three kids under the age of six, so if you ask me what I’ve read lately, it’s Goodnight Moon.
Lettering the Stage, an interview with Sarah Ruhl
The heat of autumn
is different from the heat of summer.
One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
One is a dock you walk out on,
the other the spine of a thin swimming horse
and the river each day a full measure colder.
With the help of Flora Coker, the Poetry Foundation created an animated reading of Jane Hirshfield’s “The Heat of Autumn.”
I remember the first time I realized the world we are born into is not the one we leave.
A belated Ramadan kareem to all of our Muslim readers! And to everybody: here’s a great round-up of Ramadan-centric writing and podcasts courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.
