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"Unfortunately, this feature of poetry does not sit comfortably alongside some of the more rigid precepts governing the artform, principle among which is the role of sensibility – the expectation that a poem, however mysterious, is primarily an emotional or perceptive response to the author’s first-hand experiences."

"all winter
Venus shone brilliantly
only now
do I see her note
on the pinboard"

—Farah Ali

Joyelle on Jeopardy. More. And...

“…after a hundred years of rubbing up against explorers, traders, missionaries, and colonial administrators, the tribe members had ceased to be reliable authorities on their own traditions.” –Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau (1999) [Critics and artists]

Moderate (M-class) solar flare.