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By Kenneth GoldsmithNovember 16, 2007
In light of yesterday's indictment, I feel the need to repost this, first published here back in August, when Bonds was on the verge of his record. Rereading it, I...
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By Christian BökNovember 16, 2007
----------------- "nature stands considered forever in iron with cold knowledge revealing one dream that love just hooked" "Poem #18450" Generation: 19 Species: AB from Darwinian Poetry by David Phillip Rea ----------------- "Poem #18450" (at the time of this posting) is currently "alive," and so far...
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By Major JacksonNovember 16, 2007
If I drive 30 minutes north of my home, answer all the correct questions about citizenship, provide all the proper papers, and am cleared to proceed across the border, I...
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By Ange MlinkoNovember 15, 2007
The Dark Months of May is a companion volume to Ballad of Jamie Allan: a prequel, really. It starts out as the chronicle of a breakup in a terse, personal...
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By Stephanie BurtNovember 15, 2007
The search for cyberpunk poetry, begun last week, has turned up a good candidate: Jasper Bernes' Starsdown. I may have a lot more to say about it elsewhere, so for...
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By Fred SasakiNovember 15, 2007
Those drawings on the cover of November’s Poetry are of chairs. The chairs are drawn by David Byrne. Why did David Byrne draw chairs? Well, they have arms and legs and vaguely human...
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By Ange MlinkoNovember 15, 2007
This is for Rigoberto following his Szymborska post. A few weeks ago, I attended my first town meeting. Somehow, it was nothing like the town meetings of Stars Hollow, with its...
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By Rigoberto GonzálezNovember 14, 2007
Whiting Award winner Paul Guest’s second volume of poetry is the recipient of the 4th annual Prairie Schooner Book Prize. And Notes for My Body Double is a book full...
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By A.E. StallingsNovember 13, 2007
Dramatis Personae: Snark, a thin, brittle, elegant demon, the shade of an autumn leaf, with dry, cicada-like wings, and a long sharp nose. Eyebrows perpetually arched in an expression of...
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By Kenneth GoldsmithNovember 13, 2007
UbuWeb - Featured Resources: November 2007 Selected by Christof Migone 1. Brion Gysin "I Am" Machine-poem (1960) 2. Janet Zweig "Mind Over Matter" 3. Gregory Whitehead "Pressures of the Unspeakable" 4....