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Poetry and theater are necking in the coat closet again–if you’re in New York on June 3, check out the CUNY Graduate Center Segal Theatre’s latest extraordinary programming, [...]
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BJ Love’s Pretty LIT Podcast Rocks the Poem
Before we sign off for the Memorial Day long weekend (yes, we get away from the internets from time to time), we wanted to end the week with a little love, that is, some BJ Love! Episode 5 of his [...]
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Every poet’s favorite story writer, Lydia Davis, has won the Booker International Prize, reports the New York Times: Lydia Davis, the American writer known for her very short stories, has been [...]
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Poets and publishers, CJ Martin and Julia Drescher, are two of many currently experiencing the aftershocks of last week’s tornado that ripped through Oklahoma and Texas. Martin and his partner, [...]
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We’re having a grand-ole time ransacking (“‘Co-mates (co-mates?)”) the wonderful early (early?) online journal onedit, now-defunct (defunct?), sadly. Anyhow, our time is grand [...]
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We’re saddened to hear about the death of German-lyric poet, Sarah Kirsch. Kirsch died on May 5th: her death was recently announced by her publisher, the Munich-based publishing house Deutsche [...]
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Some important questions addressing race and conceptual poetry from A.L. Nielsen at Jacket2, if you please. He recalls Adrian Piper’s famous calling card: Among the readings for the graduate [...]
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Over at the Ploughshares blog is a conversation with Seattle-area poet and pie expert Kate Lebo, who is more than expert; she’s the “proprietress (or rather, proPIEtress) of Pie School, [...]
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‘Tis happening, friends! Not only are your favorite fiction and non-fiction books available in electronic formats—but now—your favorite books of poetry are rapidly becoming available in [...]
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We have our friends at the Paris Review blog to thank for pointing us to Open Culture where they’ve posted the celestial syllabus to Allen Ginsberg’s 1977 course at the Jack Kerouac [...]
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Poets! What’s going on here?!?! We’ve caught wind of yet ANOTHER plagiarism scandal, reported by the Guardian. Last month Paisley Rekdal shared her thoughts on being plagiarized by [...]
From Poetry Magazine
After a brief hiatus for National Poetry Month, our monthly Reading List returns. In this installment, contributors to Poetry’s May issue share what they have been thumbing through: Michelle [...]
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Omnidawn announced the winner of the 2012 Open Poetry Book Prize this week: Endi Bogue Hartigan, for her manuscript pool [5 choruses]. Hartigan hails from Portland, Oregon where she works for the [...]
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We’d be remiss to leave off without giving birthday wishes to Robert Creeley, who would have been 87 today. We have poems galore here to celebrate, and other accoutrement. Thanks also to Chris [...]
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The East Bay Poetry Summit is almost here! The East Bay Poetry Summit begins this weekend in Berkeley! (Thanks, in part, to generous donations to its successful Indiegogo campaign.) The summit will [...]
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Sure can! That may not come as a surprise to many poets out there who haven’t yet transitioned from Ticonderoga pencils to MacBook Pro, however, who better to hear about paper’s [...]
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At his Samizdat blog, Robert Archambeau reflects on Marjorie Perloff’s recent talk on Paul Celan at the University of Chicago’s new Logan Center (and he quite admired it): We tend to see [...]
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Looking for a new art project to fund, one that might provide some spiritual redemption? We have an idear, having just noticed that Kevin Killian and Felix Bernstein, among others, are collaborating [...]
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Granary Books announces an important new title–Archive from “A Secret Location”–and oddly enough, we were just talking about its precursor the other day, recalling it as a necessary [...]