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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 16, 2015
Los Angeles-based poet and academic Kim Calder has written an essay, "The Denunciation of Vanessa Place," for the Los Angeles Review of Books. The piece starts with Mongrel Coalition's tweet...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 16, 2015
In the San Francisco-Bay Area, Berkeley Renaissance predates The Beats. At Entropy, Patrick James Dunagan introduces readers to one particularly compelling Berkeley Renaissance figure, and one of our favorites: Robin...
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Featured BloggerBy CAConradJune 16, 2015
In April, 2015 Lucas de Lima performed with the poet Hiromi Ito and her translator Jeffery Angles at The Kelly Writers House on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania....
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Poetry NewsBy Michael SlosekJune 16, 2015
Today on PoetryNow "The News" stays news with a new poem by Wendy Xu. In a sort of "I do this, I do that" poem, Xu takes us through her...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 16, 2015
Have you ever wondered who is behind the steering wheel of The New York Times's Book Review? This newest installment of Times Insider introduces readers to the editor of NYT's...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2015
From Ben Lerner's "Diary," now up (gratis!) at the London Review of Books: "The fatal problem with poetry: poems. This helps explain why poets themselves celebrate poets who renounce writing."...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2015
Congratulations, Amy King! At the Pace M.S. in Publishing blog, Jane Kinney-Denning, president of WNBA-NYC, speaks with King about VIDA and her contributions to literary publishing. Jane: Hi Amy, congratulations...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2015
It's the 150th birthday of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and the Wall Street Journal reminds us that the 1865 classic "is probably second only to the 17th-century allegory, 'The...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2015
Maya C. Popa interviews Deborah Landau for Los Angeles Review of Books: "Have you seen an evolution in your generative process over the three collections? Have your aims as a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2015
We're always interested to see poetry coming into contact with other arts. Over the weekend we stumbled upon Tim Smith's review in the Baltimore Sun of composer Peter Dayton's choral...