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On the latest episode of #PoetryOffTheShelf, Elisa Díaz Castelo speaks with host Helena de Groot on vertigo, breaking a chicken, and her grandmother's advice for a good life.

Listen here: bit.ly/3Z8QIFl

Jan Beatty is a poet for whom authenticity, that ever-difficult term, is neither a pose nor a social media marketing gambit.

—Ed Simon profiles the punk laureate of Pittsburgh. bit.ly/3UYF9zC

For [Elizabeth Arnold], what was most convincing in a poem was always most incredible, what stretched one’s belief in what it is possible to do with language.

—Joshua Weiner remembers Elizabeth Arnold bit.ly/3CJwris