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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 23, 2015
Ever wondered who is behind the heavenly system that fulfills your small press dreams and desires? Why that's Brent Cunningham, Laura Moriarty, John Sakkis, Johnny Hernandez, Nicole Trigg, and all...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 23, 2015
At The Rumpus, Patrick James Dunagan observes the fabulous universe of talent that is ("stellar," as he puts it) Elizabeth Willis's New and Selected. Willis's volume is a recent publication...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 23, 2015
Our medium of choice might be language, for the most part, but we can't deny the power of a million+ images now in the public domain. Open Culture points us...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 22, 2015
In light of an excerpt from Garments Against Women (Ahsahta, 2015) having been published today at Bookforum, we'd like to also point to a nuanced review of Anne Boyer's most...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 22, 2015
Poems in the air? For his latest post at Jacket 2, Jerome Rothenberg discusses American Sign Language and its relationship to poetry. Can American Sign Language be a medium for...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 22, 2015
Take a cool, breezy tour through the latest Tibor de Nagy exhibition, consisting of collages by John Ashbery and Guy Maddin, with your guide Todd Colby. Over at Fanzine, Colby...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 22, 2015
Rigoberto González considers the "mid-career poet," defined loosely: "The expectation is that four published poetry books provides enough material to establish a reputation, a trajectory, and a sense of a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 22, 2015
Lisbon-born filmmaker Pedro Costa is interviewed at Film Comment, and he talks largely of Gil Scott-Heron, with whom Costa was set to work on his new film Horse Money. A...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 21, 2015
At Open House, editor Housten Donham interviews Fred Moten. They discuss The Feel Trio, visual and spatial models, sound and music, Moten's early influences, being poetry, and more. An excerpt: [Housten...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 21, 2015
In other exhumation news... Turns out the remains of W.B. Yeats may not (wholly?) be those interred in the shadow of Ben Bulben in Co Sligo. The Guardian reports on...