Taylor Swift is celebrating the release of her next album, The Tortured Poets Department, with a pop-up poetry library in Los Angeles this week, in partnership with Spotify. And it’s just in time for National Poetry Month.
The open-air installation will be at The Grove mall in L.A. and will open on Tuesday, April 16 and run until Thursday, April 18. The library will feature a curated selection of poetry indicative of the new album’s direction, with “books and visual surprises” in store, according to Spotify.
We have so many questions — is Swift a Mary Oliver type or a Rupi Kaur? Maybe a dash of Sylvia Plath, or Adrienne Rich? Or perhaps she’ll stick to her reported relatives, namely Emily Dickinson.
You’ll be able to access the library on a first-come, first-serve basis during The Grove’s open hours (10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), with no early entry; Spotify also notes that Swift won’t be present at the event. Even if you can’t attend in person, you can check out all the details this week on both Teen Vogue and Spotify’s social media accounts — and this story will be updated as surprises are revealed. 👀
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It’s likely Taylor Swift has more surprises up her sleeve during this release week, especially in what has otherwise been a fairly low key album cycle. She previously dropped a playlist collaboration with Apple Music with a “5 Stages of Grief” tie-in, and fans are still reeling from the categorization of some of her biggest love songs as “acceptance” or “denial.”
Swift has been open about the fact that this is an album of healing and processing experiences in her life: “I needed to make it,” she said at a Melbourne Eras Tour date. “It was really a lifeline for me. Just the things I was going through and the things I was writing about. It kind of reminded me of why songwriting was something that actually gets me through my life.”