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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is the Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University and a former poet laureate of the United Kingdom.

Descent Into the Underworld

Descent Into the Underworld

An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 03, 2018
Four Poems

Four Poems

“The Last of England,” “Hawthorn,” “Surveillance,” and “Fells Point Songs”

by Andrew Motion | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Too Much Poetic License

Too Much Poetic License

An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 05, 2016

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Finding Your Voice

by Larry Woiwode

The novelist and short-story writer Larry Woiwode, whose 1975 book Beyond the Bedroom Wall was one of the most acclaimed works of fiction of the era, died recently in North Dakota. He lived in the state for nearly 45 years, writing and working on his organic farm. He also served, for many years, as the poet laureate of North Dakota. In our Summer 2019 issue, Woiwode remembered his development as a writer—and how he ultimately came to find his voice.

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