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Ana Božičević, Ken Chen, Craig Morgan Teicher Welcome to the final installment of this years poetry preview. Id like to thank Ana, Ken, Evie, and Phillip for joining me this year and bringing their unique sensibilities to this glimpse into the future. Our collective picks for the must-read poetry books of the coming year (dont forget to check out parts one and two of the preview) show, among other things, the incredible capaciousness of contemporary poetry. Ive never felt the urgent need for...

A Different Day: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 2 Weve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, It can never be permanently defeated. President Bidens inauguration concluded with "The Hill We Climb," National Youth Poet Laureate Amada Gormans beautiful poem written for the ceremony, which includes the lines above, written after th...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Weve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, It can never be permanently defeated. President Bidens inaug...

In Ganders follow up to his extraordinary book of loss and lamentation, Be With, (for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), this poet of metaphysical abstraction, Eros, and intimate observation — and even adulation — of the natural world finds fresh metaphors for the sudden and uneasy onset of new love in the life cycles of lichen, which is "theoretically immortal," can reproduce asexually, and achieves "a/ contested mutuality," a phrase that begins to describe Ganders sense of new lov...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON — In an effort to address a major challenge when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new computational technique to accurately differentiate between data from cancer cells and the variety of normal cells found within tumor samples. The work was published today in Nature Biotechnology. The new tool, dubbed CopyKAT (copy number karyotyping of aneuploid ...

What excites me most about poetry right now is the fact that the mainstream has come to encompass so many kinds of poets, that many voices are now being heard loudly and broadly thanks to an engaged and expanding community of publishers and of younger and older poetry fans who pass poems around the Internet like the latest news. I want the preview, going forward, to include books that might fall outside of my particular sensibility. And so I have invited some friends and colleagues to help me. ...

/ The title of Kearneys new collection could mean three things: a performance (show), an affirmation (sure, spoken in Black vernacular), and to appear (to show up). The book is raucous theater, a party whose rhythms contain a meditation on what it means to have a body in public space. SHO explores Black masculinity, police killings, and Christianity, often interrogating race through the metonymy of skin. If we show our race, our seemingly most fateful attribute, on our skin, does that mean ski...

bellhaven neighborhood. >> it is a good time now for in area. the police are coming in all around, all the time. >> reporter: more than 900 agents met before dawn yesterday to execute the warrant after a two-year investigation, involving wire taps and undercover drug purchases. the sweep resulted in 34 arrests, most in east el paso and the park, including the men and women between the ages of 19 and 55. 11 firearms were taken, along with 1,100,000 in cash and drugs. >> the focus of the...