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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 11, 2015
At Boston Review, a forum about race and the poetic avant-garde features responses by Erica Hunt, Prageeta Sharma, Dorothy Wang, Lyn Hejinian--with an introduction by Stefania Heim. From BR: Harryette Mullen...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 11, 2015
The latest installment of Los Angeles Review of Books features Lynn Melnick's astounding, wonderful close reading of Diane Wakoski's work. Wakoski's 23rd collection of poetry, Bay of Angels, published by...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 10, 2015
Kenny Goldsmith has done the world a favor by bringing to The New Yorker's attention Steven Zultanski's new book, Bribery (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014) in the context of "post-Internet poetry."...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 10, 2015
The brilliant Sophie Seita reviews Bernadette Mayer's reprinted must-have Sonnets (Tender Buttons Press 2014), for Lemon Hound. She starts with sound, and song: "The first trill, or turn, rather, is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 10, 2015
What does the sound of a bugle have to do with "music, nature, and human frailty"? What's the relationship between sound and meaning? In this Rumpus review of Tod Marshall's...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 10, 2015
Today's mixtape was curated by Elizabeth Robinson. I was lucky enough to study with Elizabeth while she was a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her seminar, Modernism and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 9, 2015
Barry Schwabsky writes some short reviews of poetry books for Hyperallergic, acknowledging that the common thread is his previous unfamiliarity with the authors: "I’ve decided now to write some short...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay GarbuttMarch 9, 2015
"Float" by Tauba Auerbach, 2011 The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the March 2015 issue share some books that held their...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 9, 2015
The Buffalo News's Anthony Bannon reviews the 'posthumous emergence' of Robert Lax's literary excellence in glorious Wave Books-published form. Robert Lax--fearless, hermetic, and post-denominational--spent his childhood in Olean (near Buffalo)....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 9, 2015
Jacket Copy hosts Carol Muske-Dukes's recent article about Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Landau, and Cecilia Woloch: four poets who, like Claudia Rankine, witness and critique four very different worlds...