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Mark Edmundson gives new meaning to the term “poetry slam” in an essay published in the July 2013 issue of Harper’s. It’s inauspicious, supposedly on the “decline of [...]
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At The Rumpus: Frank O’Hara’s Poems Retrieved
At The Rumpus, Barbara Berman pointed us in the direction of the reissue of this collection: Poems Retrieved, by Frank O’Hara- edited by Donald Allen. It looks like an excellent complement to [...]
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Sherman Alexie’s tweet “Grammar cops are rarely good writers. Imagination always disobeys.” has generated a slew of responses across the twitter-universe. Mediabistro’s [...]
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You know it’s summer in Brooklyn when the Popsickle literary fest is popping off! The venue this year is LaunchPad, a fantastic art space with a backyard on 721 Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn. [...]
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One for the odd books: Colombian poet Raffael Medina Brochero has decided to sell his sweet breads, cajones, sad sacks, you know, to raise $20K for a poetry tour, according to Colombia Reports: The [...]
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Posted recently to the tumblr A Fiery Flying Roule is a new poem from Tom Raworth in response to the U.S. security breach; he calls it “Just a quick doodle with some of the trigger-words in the [...]
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You’ll want to stumble over to the City Lights blog today to read “I’m Not a Man,” by one of those great neglectarinos Harold Norse. As the good editors write: Often [...]
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And they are (in the International Poetry category): Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems, by Ghassan Zaqtan, and translated by Fady Joudah. Judge Wang Ping writes: What does poetry do? [...]
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In this latest installment of SF Weekly’s Read Local column, Alexis Coe reviews The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, forthcoming from UC Press. Check it out! In the introduction to The [...]
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At Vice, Blake Butler has curated an array of summer reading lists from fiction writers and poets called “What Are These Freaks Reading?” Scope it out! It includes a set of summer reads [...]
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At Big Other, John Madera talks to Joyelle McSweeney about her latest book from Tarpaulin Sky, Salamandrine: 8 Gothics. McSweeney’s hybrid text falls under the wonderful generic cross-roads of [...]
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Line trailer from Non-Inferno Media on Vimeo. Check out this new documentary by Robert McTavish that’s all about the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference! From the Simon Fraser University Library: [...]
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The Daily Beast reports that the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, has discovered the origins of a long-standing feud between Allen Ginsberg and Diana Trilling. The source? A [...]
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Amanda Nadelberg, author of Bright Brave Phenomena (Coffeehouse Press, 2012) is in the spotlight at Coldfront, fielding questions about process, inspiration, and bravery from Coldfront’s-own, [...]
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Calum Rodger reviews Alec Finlay’s new book, Question your teaspoons: Stonypathian memories (Dunbar: Calder Wood Press, 2012), for Glasgow Review of Books–the book, Rodger notes, borrows [...]
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Marcus Books is the country’s longest-running black-owned bookstore and it is desperately in danger of closing. The San Francisco bookstore has been in its same location on Fillmore Street [...]
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Lucky for us, there’s much footage of the recent East Bay Poetry Summit, including this must-watch of Jen Hofer with Dolores Dorantes at Woolsey Heights. Recording of the reading took place on [...]
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Over at the Paris Review Daily, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editor of Muriel Rukeyser’s only novel Savage Coast, talks about her recovering of the book, which has just been published by the Feminist [...]