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Michael & Flynn Lally (Photo © Star Black)
I’m happy to see that
Michael Lally
has been blogging
about the effects of
brain surgery
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Geoffrey Gatza’s Thanksgiving Feast
menu poem extravaganza
this year is dedicated to
C.D. Wright
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The Mottram Effect ...
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Recently Received
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Heimrad Bäcker, Transcript , translated by Patrick Greaney & Vincent Kling, edited & with an afterword by Friedrich Achleitner, Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, 2010
Steve Carey, The Selected Poems of ...
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Anvil Press
Mel Nichols, Elisabeth Workman & Nada Gordon
conducted by Drew Gardner
last weekend at the Zinc Bar, NYC
(best viewed full screen)
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I have become accustomed to pausing to say thank you whenever this blog reaches a new milestone. Today, eleven months & one week after having passed the two million visit mark, we – you & I together – pass the 2.5 million threshold. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That it should ...
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(Photo used by permission, all rights reserved, © Fiona Templeton)
Annette Barbasch & Steve Buscemi in Fiona Templeton’s Against Agreement , 1982
Fiona Templeton & Poets Theater
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Hail, poetry!
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Tan Lin Chalk Playground & LitTwitChalk
A ...
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She was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the first one born in the 20 th century. Just 24, it wasn’t even her first book, coming seven years after The House of Silk. He was older and more established, holding the post that is now called Poet Laureate of the ...
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Carol Hannah Whitfield’s exploding skirt
In which I note that I accurately predicted the winner of Project Runway on October 15 . Nothing in the final collections made me change my mind about the superiority of Irina Shabayeva’s vision. While the single best look in the three ...
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Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Rising of the Ashes , translated by Cullen Goldblatt, City Lights, San Francisco 2009
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Some Very Popular Songs , translated by Mark Terrill, Toad Press, Claremont, ...
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Keith Waldrop
has won
the 2009
National Book Award for poetry
for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
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National Book Award
For the past couple of days, I’ve been toying in my head with which goofball baseball analogy to employ to start off a review of Alan Bernheimer’s The Spoonlight Institute , just out from Adventures in Poetry & deserving of every award they give to books in next year’s round of ...
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Alan Bennett
Photo by Keith Tuma
Mark Weiss’ introduction to
The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
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The drama of Jimmy Schuyler
9 unpublished poems by Schuyler
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Talking with Beverly Dahlen
( part one ) ( part two )
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Is Tim Gunn
the perfect literary ...
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Of the 633 books, chapbooks,
songs, films, magazines, websites, exhibits,
“and other cultural phenomena”
cited in this year’s Attention Span survey,
just 78 were mentioned
by more than one of the
60 contributors.
Barbara Guest, Anne Boyer,
Yedda Morrisson & I
had more ...
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Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Ryan Adams, Hello Sunshine , Akashic Books, New York 2009
Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song , Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009
Adrian Blevins, Live from the Homesick Jamboree , Wesleyan University Press, ...
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Alas, it turns out that I’m a better forecaster of Project Runway than I am of baseball. To wit:
If I had to guess today (and that’s why I’m writing this), I would project an all-female finals consisting of Althea Harper, Carol Hannah Whitfield & – most likely to win – Irina ...
