Or Paul Simon, whose recent shows have begun with a performance of his 2023 album Seven Psalms before segueing into a second set of older music.
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David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.
This collection of poems—Orr’s thirteenth—bears bitter witness to environmental degradation, moral corruption, and the aging of a body and of a generation, all viewed from a bird’s eye, wrapped in the language and tone of myth.
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Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
But in Soni’s careful translation, the repetitions and subtle variation of Verma’s poems also achieve a haunting, transcendental resonance.
In his gorgeous and arresting debut, Nick Martino hurtles through a variety of forms—from sonnets to visual poems to works of visual art—to vividly portray and reflect on a teenager’s world during and after the speaker’s parents’ divorce and his father’s incarceration.
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Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones.
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Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
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