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Save the Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 6:30 pm Poetry Forum with Daniel Nester
Daniel Nester is the editor of The Incredible Sestina Anthology, published by Write Bloody Publishing in 2013. As a journalist and essayist, his work has appeared in a variety of places, such as Salon, The New York Times, The Morning…
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What’s New at The Chicago School of Poetics
Now in its second successful year, The Chicago School of Poetics (CSoP) is kicking off 2014 with truly unique online course offerings and amazing opportunities to work with leading international poets in an…
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Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) [by Tara Betts]
Most major news media outlets were fixated on the New Jersey bridge traffic scandal and Governor Chris Christie’s claims to have no knowledge of an intentional traffic block. However, a more personal loss in…
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Gwendolyn Brooks’ Archives Find Home in Illinois [by Tara Betts]
Gwendolyn Brooks was celebrated with her own stamp alongside Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, E.E. Cummings, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams in 2012. One of…
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Hurston, Humor, and Shasheer Zamata on Saturday Night Live [by Tara Betts]
Michael Ealy and Halle Berry as Tea Cake and Janie Crawford in the film version of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It’s a day of literary birthdays: Zora Neale Hurston, Cornelius Eady, Michael Medrano…
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Poetry in the Polar Vortex [by Tara Betts]
The first blast of the polar vortex is closing schools again and is predicted to drop into double-digit below zero temperatures. When the vortex made its first visit last weekend, it made me nostalgic…
