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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 4, 2015
The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! We can't believe it's been a year since these two took the cakes. Now, excitingly, the “'Lammys,' as they are...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 4, 2015
Artist and friend Abraham Adams leads a tribute to Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) for Artforum. Chosen ones include Matvei Yankelevich, Ariana Reines, Purdey Lord Kreiden and Michael Thomas Taren, and John...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 4, 2015
Wait for it... it's an Allen Ginsberg poem! And yet, unlike Ginsberg's poem "Howl" which was seized by U.S. customs in 1956, resulting in the arrest of Howl and Other...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 4, 2015
Behold the unpublishable! Vice Magazine hosts Blake Butler's most recent glance at Ubu Editions's "Publishing the Unpublishable," the e-publications series sparked by Kenneth Goldsmith and Ubuweb. From Vice: Why does one...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 4, 2015
Well, we kept our eyes peeled, as promised! Bhanu Kapil responds to the recent Stranger article in which Ryan Boudinot, writing of his time at the Goddard low-residency MFA program,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 3, 2015
At Hyperallergic, Douglas Messerli gives a second glance to The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett: a relatively new and sleek, 500-page block that invites readers to explore Beckett's other literary...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Laura KasischkeMarch 3, 2015
[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Laura Kasischke’s “Two Men & a Truck” and “The Wall” appear in the March 2015 issue. Previous...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 3, 2015
Yesterday, The Poetry Society of America announced that Kamau Brathwaite is recipient of this year's Frost Medal. PSA's Frost Medal is its the greatest honor: "presented annually for distinguished lifetime...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 3, 2015
Writer Ryan Boudinot has penned a piece for The Stranger on MFA programs--not your average surmise, but a frank one: "I recently left a teaching position in a master of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 3, 2015
"Frequent" would be an understatement for Georgia Review contributor, Judith Kitchen, who penned some 50 essay-reviews beginning in the 1980s. The Georgia Review remembers Kitchen this month as it prints...