My favorite films in the fest so far can all be read as warm-hearted odes to human intimacy, intelligence, and grace.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2026
This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.
People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.
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Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
Because so many of Gunn’s friends died in San Francisco, a city where Gunn had found happiness and freedom, then these elegies are also a monument to a time of communal sorrow and mourning.
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Colm Tóibín,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2026
Their books are therefore, in some respects, elegies to a conception of reading and writing which seems to be nearing an end.
Many poems are short and easy reads, and some of the best examples of the genre have been written about the autumn season.
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Dana Kelley,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2026
My physical study, on the floor, poking at what was there in the open field of the air, led to newfound levels of learning to process, in poems on the page, where my initial feelings of hunger came from.
The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.
If powder-white beaches, turquoise waters, and lush jungles are at the top of your travel itinerary, the following 11 idylls are must-gos, where nature is at its most relaxed and pleasurable.
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Skyli Alvarez,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 May 2026
But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees.
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