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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 27, 2015
The folks at LA Curbed bring us this tip: Charles Bukowski's L.A. childhood home is for sale! The asking price for his house, which is "up for sale for the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 27, 2015
As most poets do, as John Yau writes in his recent article at Hyperallergic. Conner, a postwar American artist who worked in nearly every medium throughout his career, is known...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 27, 2015
Daniel Chiasson reviews John Ashbery's new book, Breezeway (Ecco) for The New Yorker: "Few others of his generation would think to put 'lemon telenovela' or 'texasburger' in a poem, or...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 27, 2015
A must-read in the fifth issue of The Improbable, the "highly curated, monthly collection of short reviews written by booksellers for booksellers about unusual and wondrous books that live at...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 27, 2015
Meanwhile, The New York Times reviews Welcome to This House, a film directed by Barbara Hammer about Elizabeth Bishop. The film opened in select theaters yesterday. Hammer is an acclaimed...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 26, 2015
This summer Omnidawn Publishing presents "Prosody & Revision:" an online workshop lead by David Koehn. The workshop is based on Donald Justice's teachings on prosody and is a sneak peek...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne BertramMay 26, 2015
I would like to shift away from discussing the deployment of whiteness in conceptual, avant-garde, or experimental writing. In my previous post, "Canvases Pale," I included a definition of conceptual...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 26, 2015
Sometimes our favorite writers join in linguistic embrace precisely how we'd dream. At BOMB Daily, Charity Coleman, author of the newly released chapbook Juliary (O'Clock Press 2015), interviews Masha Tupitsyn...
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Poetry NewsBy Michael SlosekMay 26, 2015
This morning as you're getting back from your Memorial Day revelries, take an audio journey with Cedar Sigo's "LA Odyssey" on PoetryNow. His poem begins: I almost insist on the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 26, 2015
What's a dream machine? What does the title of Sade Murphy's newest collection, Dream Machine, reveal about the content inside? James Pate writes, "The title seems two-fold. The book could...