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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 18, 2013
Barry Schwabsky takes a well-scholarly go at Paul Celan's life and legacy in his review of David Young's book of Celan translations, Language Behind Bars and Susan H. Gillespie's Corona:...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 18, 2013
Amazing news from the University of Wisconsin-Madison: The UW–Madison libraries have acquired the archive of Milwaukee’s Woodland Pattern Book Center (founded in 1979 by Karl Gartung, Anne Kingsbury, and Karl...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 18, 2013
Our demands do not limit themselves to one coast! Nor to merely coast! And so we bring you, or help to, the Brooklyn Poetry Summit, happening this Aprille and much...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 15, 2013
At the HuffPo today, Anis Shivani names his best of 2013. And in the poetry category, that honor goes to Franz Wright for his 2013 collection F. Not only is...
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Featured BloggerBy Carmen Giménez SmithNovember 15, 2013
Aesthetically these five books run the gamut, but together they represent the current landscape of Latina poetry in the last year or so, although what Latina represents is contested. In...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 15, 2013
The editors over at Magma want to test your gendar, so they've posted quotes by male, female, and genderqueer poets to see if you can identify who's who. As they...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 15, 2013
Yup, that's Michael McClure on the far left. Garrett Caples speaks to McClure on the eve of City Lights's re-publication of Ghost Tantras, first published in 1964, at SF Bay...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 14, 2013
But what isn't? Gold? All right. Andy Mister wrote about Erik Satie, My Dinner with Andre, Dead C, and Han-Joachim Roedelius for Coldfront's Poets Off Poetry series: At the beginning...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 14, 2013
Wow! Our favorite London jewelry-maker, Tatty Devine, teamed up with one of our favorite publishing outfits, Faber&Faber, to make the Women With Something To Say campaign. For more, here's a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 14, 2013
Jasper Bernes, photo by Andrew Kenower. Andrew Epstein at Locus Solus points out a new essay from Jasper Bernes about John Ashbery's "free indirect labor" in the journal Modern Language...