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.

  Ada Limón, C. Dale Young, Dana Levin, Jennifer L. Knox, Lytton Smith, Natalie Diaz, Robert Wrigley, Sam HamillNov 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

  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)

  Lytton SmithOct 28, 2013
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  Refusing Simplicity: Encountering Seamus Heaney

  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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  Writing in Place: Projections of Landscape

  On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'

  Lytton SmithApr 26, 2013
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  Answers on a Postcard: British Enthusiasm and the Olympic Dismount

  The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games

  Lytton SmithJan 24, 2013
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  Answers on a Postcard: Deryn Rees-Jones’s Poetry

  A letter from London, on the lyric.

  Lytton SmithJan 24, 2013
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  We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)

  The Epilogues

  Alison Stine, Deborah Paredez, Jake Adam York, Lynn Melnick, Lytton Smith, Michael Heald, P. Scott Cunningham, Patrick Rosal, Sarah BlakeAug 13, 2012
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  From the Other Coast

  On poetry and riot.

  Lytton SmithDec 2, 2011