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Jan 8, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner In the increasingly secular world of contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman is a rare poet of faith. His religious belief, which began in his evangelical childhood and renewed itself during his nearly two-decade struggle against cancer, suffuses each of his eleven books of poetry, prose, and translation.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
yalereview.org | Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner In 2021, The Yale Reviewpublished two biting poems on love and capitalism by the poet Elisa Gonzalez. I had first encountered her work years earlier and been immediately struck by the unlikely combination of feeling and self-possession I found there. To read one of her elegies, for example, is to watch despair and rage be drawn, with white-knuckled precision, under grammar’s superintending spell.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
yalereview.org | Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner In October 2003, The Yale Review printed four never-before-published early poems by the great modernist poet Marianne Moore. These poems, all written in Moore’s early twenties, bear many of the stylistic hallmarks of her later work: jaunty concision, arch humor, and a heightened attention to the syllabic (even more than the accentual) measure of the poetic line.
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Mar 29, 2023 | 
communications.yale.edu | Kathryn Lofton |Emily Bernard |Maggie Millner
Critic, novelist, and educatorReading in an Age of Crisis: A roundtable discussion with Garth Greenwell, Kathryn Lofton, and Emily BernardGarth Greenwell, Kathryn Lofton, and Emily Bernard will discuss art, morality, and the ethics of readership— and their own quirks and habits as readers. Moderated by Meghan O’Rourke.
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Mar 29, 2023 | 
thecreativeindependent.com | Jenny Davis |Maggie Millner
Poet Maggie Millner discusses finding a form, valuing your free time, why magazines are essential, and the importance of friends. Part of: Developing a creative process Having a day job Finding balance Feeling healthy Highlights on I’d love to hear about your background, how you got started in poetry, why you decided to start writing, just all those general things.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
faber.co.uk | Imogen Whiteley |Maggie Millner
This is a motley bunch of songs that appear in Couplets, or that informed its writing in some way. I’ve decided not to labor over the playlist itself, because I’ll get terribly emotional if I listen too deeply or repetitively to these songs, all of which I know by heart already anyway. Music is like that: full of fugitive meanings known to the listener alone.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | LaTasha N. Diggs |Monica Youn |Maggie Millner |Mahogany L. Browne
Edited by Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins. Orison, $18 trade paper (154p) ISBN 978-1-949039-39-9Ansel Elkin’s powerful poem, “Autobiography of Eve,” opens this anthology and inspires its title, championing a triumphant heroine “wearing nothing but snakeskin boots,” who proclaims, “Let it be known: I did not fall from grace. I leapt/ to freedom.” In poems that present the Fall from Eve’s point of view, disobedience is recast as rebellion or escape.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Maggie Millner
In a fragment near the beginning of A Lover’s Discourse (1977), Roland Barthes outlines a phenomenon he calls annulation, or annulment: an “explosion of language during which the subject manages to annul the loved object under the volume of love itself: by a specifically amorous perversion, it is love the subject loves, not the object.” This process necessitates the disenfranchisement or desubjectification of love-objects (the beloveds) so that lovers may reinstate themselves at the center of...
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Feb 10, 2023 | 
chron.com | Maggie Millner |Kristen Young
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 128 pp. $24.75 - - - Desire can drive us into dangerous situations. That's certainly the case in poet Maggie Millner's debut, "Couplets," which brings a queer coming-out story into the Brooklyn BDSM community. Millner explores what happens when the ferocity of wanting is bound by the restraint of form: Her novel unfolds as a series of poems, mostly the eponymous couplets. Sound different? It is, and I am glad.
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Feb 10, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Maggie Millner
Desire can drive us into dangerous situations. That's certainly the case in poet Maggie Millner's debut, "Couplets," which brings a queer coming-out story into the Brooklyn BDSM community. Millner explores what happens when the ferocity of wanting is bound by the restraint of form: Her novel unfolds as a series of poems, mostly the eponymous couplets. Sound different? It is, and I am glad.
