Lytton Smith

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  On Galway Kinnell

  Poet Galway Kinnell passed away on October 28, 2014. We asked a number of poets and critics to reflect on his life and his work....

  Sam Hamill, Ada Limón, Robert Wrigley, Jennifer L. Knox, C. Dale Young, Natalie Diaz, Dana Levin, Lytton SmithNov 3, 2014

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  In Reply to Hanif Kureishi, from the Alpine Ski Slopes of the Winter Paralympics

  If we don’t learn to listen to the body, which has elements we cannot know exist, we cannot be our selves....

  Lytton SmithMar 19, 2014
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  Answers on a Postcard: Mobile Citizenship

  Lytton Smith on his island....

  Lytton SmithMar 1, 2014
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  We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part IX: On Domestic Labor

  LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi....

  Lytton SmithFeb 21, 2014

• We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VIII: Curling and the Poetics of Friction

  TEAM GB has slipped down the rankings, in both the Men’s and Women’s competitions. Defeats to Norway and Switzerland respectively have left progression to the semi-finals — and a chance of the medals — on uncertain ground.     ¤ Slipping, physicists will tell ...

  Lytton SmithFeb 20, 2014

• We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VII: On Curling as Poetic Line

  LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi....

  Lytton SmithFeb 18, 2014

• Answers on a Postcard: Justice Among Us (Citizens)

  Dover is the limit – is it not  — “Fugue,” David Herd   ON A CLEAR DAY, standing on the cliffs at Dover, a port town in Kent, southeast England, you can see to France. The cliffs of Dover, though, are famous for a ...

  Lytton SmithOct 28, 2013
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  Refusing Simplicity: Encountering Seamus Heaney

  There was a sense of an almost formal completion. But also a recognition that nothing can be learned, that to be in the presence of a death is to be in the presence of something utterly simple and utterly mysterious. In ...

  Lytton SmithSep 3, 2013
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  Answers on a Postcard: Informed Poetry

  Tom Chivers’s recent anthology promises a corrective to the assumption that poetic form is a fixed thing, an inherited corset....

  Lytton SmithAug 20, 2013
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  Answers on a Postcard: Here in the Place I Happen Not to Be

  To the Arctic in search of poetry...

  Lytton SmithJun 21, 2013
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  Answers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British Debuts

  SHE LEAVES, then later reflects, “I’ve had to do a lot less explaining myself out here.” ¤ We come across creativity through happy accident, which is a tautology not an oxymoron, a fusing of English’s ...

  Lytton SmithMay 20, 2013
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  Writing in Place: Projections of Landscape

  On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'...

  Lytton SmithApr 26, 2013