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“Happy Forty-Four, John Beer!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
JOHN BEER (8/28)My little horse must think it queerTo try to put the car in gear.A birthday poem for my dearExalted malted friend, John Beer.Oh, don’t you worry, never fear:Thomas Hood will soon be…
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Cinematic Qualities in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edwin Denby [by Larry Sawyer]
Given the difficulty Americans seem to have finding any common ground on the question of gun control, unsurprisingly, as a poet, I hear a particular poem rise up in my memory to provide a…
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Best American Poetry 2013 Book Launch at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, Saturday, August 31, 4:15-5:00
The Best American Poetry 2013 Book Launch First Baptist Decatur Sanctuary Stage with readings by Jericho Brown, Denise Duhamel, David Kirby, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, and Kevin Young. Books will be for sale, signing…
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A Supermarket on Facebook and ‘Free Union’ by Breton [by Larry Sawyer]
[Happy birthday, Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880–1918] André Breton's agenda to destroy bourgeois forms of consciousness with the exploration of desire as "a theatre of provocations" is possibly most apparent and memorable in his poem from…
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Larry Sawyer, Guest Author August 26-30
Larry Sawyer is the author of Vertigo Diary (BlazeVox, 2013), and Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Books, 2010). His poetry has appeared in Action Yes, The Chicago Tribune, Coconut, Court Green, Esque, Exquisite Corpse,…
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“Happy Forty-Three, Graham Foust!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
GRAHAM FOUST (8/25)Foust is forty-three.Don’t try to annihilate me.His Christian name is Graham.The Lion will lie to the Lamb.The Nixon AdministrationHas made a promiscuous oration.And Foust is forty-three:A degenerate virgo like me.•Kit Marlowe wrote…
