Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.
Category: Poetry and Poets
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘To My Surprise, This Charming Man Began to Cry’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Jamila Woods Puts Herself at the Center of “Water Made Us”
“Water Made Us,” a new album due Oct. 13, achieves the musician’s greatest synthesis yet between her voices as a poet and as a songwriter.
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A Poet’s View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk
On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk.
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Werner Herzog Is the Voice of A.I. Poetry
When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said. “I was the only choice.”
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Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
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Blaise Cendrars’s Eye-Opening Artist’s Book at the Morgan
A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows of the summer.
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A Long, Shining River of Verse, Flowing From a Rower and Writer
Spend a day on the water with Wang Ping and you will discover a source of her poetry.
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The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature
Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.
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Walking 36 Miles Through the Wales Countryside
Walking 36 miles through the Welsh countryside, a writer considers a proposed new national forest, which is designed to help tackle climate change, boost biodiversity and promote nature tourism.