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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 11, 2014
According to Locus Solus, there's a nice reference to the Frank O'Hara poem, "Ave Maria," in A.O. Scott's article about kissing at the movies. The article appears in this Sunday's...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 11, 2014
Nathaniel Mackey has been teaching at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina for the last five years. This year, he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded by the Poetry...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 11, 2014
The Paris Review Daily points us to Aperture magazine's winter issue, which features four poets discussing their favorite photographs in a piece called “Collectors: The Poets.” The piece features John...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 11, 2014
According to Hyperallergic, 21 engravings from a series by William Blake about the Biblical figure of Job are now on view at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan. Here's...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay GarbuttDecember 10, 2014
Jane Freilicher on June 1, 2013 at Tibor de Nagy beside Walter Silver's photo of her and John Ashbery taken 1952 at Tibor de Nagy. Credit: Lawrence Schwartzwald. We are...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 10, 2014
Slant Six, Erin Belieu's newest collection of poems, arrived in bookstores this season. At The New York Times, Dwight Garner takes a look at Belieu's most recent accomplishment, which he...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 10, 2014
Over at VICE, writer Kim Kelly came across the movie for Joseph Mosconi's book Fright Catalog (Insert Blanc Press 2013). Kelly was blown away: "It was so mesmerizing, and so...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 10, 2014
New Directions published Will Alexander's adventurous book, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, in 2009. At New Directions's blog, Now That it's Now, Elizabeth Bryant interviews Alexander about his writing practice. Elizabeth...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 9, 2014
Get ready to start the new year off right! At The Millions, begin pulling together your reading list with a few recommendations from Ben Lerner. From where I’m sitting I...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 9, 2014
At Hyperallergic, Felix Bernstein writes about Dorothea Lasky as the "Golden Mean" and the "Ello of poetry" (we bet she'll have more staying power, though!). Lasky's new book, Rome, writes...