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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2013
One of the largest literary competitions in the world, the Foyle Prize, funded by the Foyle Foundation (UK), is an honor bestowed on 100 young poets from 11-17 years of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2013
The much-beloved Flying Object of Hadley, MA, is hosting its 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT AND EPIC RAFFLE ! ! ! This newness is in addition to the facts that they've just...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2013
If interested in the confluence of poetics and healing, look no further than Melissa Buzzeo's essay up at the Les Figues blog. "The Poetics of Healing: Vital Forms" is an...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2013
Robert Baird of the New Yorker documents Kirill Medvedev's conflict with police at Pussy Riot's pre-trial hearing: One bright April day last year, the Russian poet Kirill Medvedev visited the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2013
We've been waiting for this for annuals, like begonias and bachelor's button, oh my; we just didn't know it. Your eyes burning too? It's because Kate Durbin and Ben Fama...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 30, 2013
Felix Bernstein has penned an original for HTMLGIANT, writing on Vanessa Place, Slavoj Žižek, Trisha Low, "and more." To the point, Bernstein responds to "Zombie Poetry," an essay by Place...
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Featured BloggerBy Valerie Mejer CasoSeptember 30, 2013
"Concha" by Russell Monk Someone who knows something. Someone who has neighbors. No one knows who lives next door. No one knows who the other is. The more we know,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 30, 2013
Announcing Aufgabe DIGITAL! This is fateless news for those of us fascinated by poetry in translation, contemporary poetry in English (hey!), and thoroughly engaged critical writing, too, we must say....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 30, 2013
Believe it or not, the Unterberg Poetry Center is already 75 years old! From the Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Bratburd reports on a new exhibition at the 92nd Street Y,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 30, 2013
Newly posted by Jerome Rothenberg at Jacket 2: Stephen Fredman's wonderful interview with David Antin, conducted in the spring of 2013. Q. 1 When you began delivering talk...