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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay GarbuttDecember 5, 2014
Live from Room 8201 at the Miami Book Fair International comes this galvanizing reading with Nathaniel Mackey, and the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows (from left...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 5, 2014
Time to order your performance bible! Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 3, is out! And if you order before December 15, this gift of life is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 4, 2014
Today ends on a sad note. Earlier this morning we heard via social media that poet and teacher Claudia Emerson had died, and the news was confirmed with this obituary...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 4, 2014
At Jacket 2 Sarah Dowling proposes more conversation about languages within creative writing workshops: "I try to take an expanded and expansive approach to language: I want the students to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 4, 2014
PJ Harvey's first poetry collection, The Hollow of the Hand, is set for publication October 2015. Written in collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy (who also collaborated with Eliza...
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Open DoorBy Sara WintzDecember 4, 2014
 From left to right: Stephanie Young, David Buuck, Christian Nagler. Photo by Sara Wintz  At the end of summer, I went back to school and sat down with three Bay Area...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 4, 2014
If you are in New York this week, don't miss one of the most comprehensive programs--and one of the few in the last decade--to examine the work of Theresa Hak...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2014
Sabotage Reviews features Ten: The New Wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf, a second anthology resulting from the UK development program The Complete Works. "A poetry anthology titled Ten the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2014
This afternoon is the perfect time to put on headphones and listen to some newly digitized recordings of James Weldon Johnson reading his poetry, courtesy of PennSound, and with many...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 3, 2014
The NEA Awards have been announced! This year's $25,000 grants in Poetry go to: Sean Hill Fairbanks, AK Lynn Xu Laguna Niguel, CA Brandon Brown Oakland, CA Javier Zamora San Rafael, CA Ellen Bass Santa Cruz, CA Eleni Sikelianos Boulder, CO Carolina Ebeid Denver,...