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How will you celebrate? [by Shanna Compton]
National Poetry Month begins tomorrow, as readers of this blog surely know. It's also the tenth year of NaPoWriMo, during which millions (OK maybe hundreds) of poets attempt to write a poem every day…
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Musings [By Lera Auerbach]
I am in the middle of writing a book – collection of random thoughts, musings, daily fragments. Here are some of them: On self: Wondering wanderer in search of wonder, always lost, never found,…
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Happy Birthday Best American Poetry: Launch readings in Boston (April 4) and NYC (April 11)
Click cover to pre-order: Launch readings hosted by David Lehman and Robert Pinsky and featuring poets included in this volume: April 4, 6:00 PM: Metcalf Building, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Second…
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Menu
"It seems to me that the menu lies close to the heart of the human impulse to order, to beauty, to pattern. It draws on the original chthonic upwelling that underlies all art. A…
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New York City to Celebrate Frederico García Lorca
The Spanish writer Federico García Lorca lived in New York in 1929 and 1930 and wrote about the experience in a book of verse. Lorca will be the subject of a citywide festival beginning…
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Part V, Affective Poetics and the Narrative Need: Toward a Revaluation, by Leslie Heywood
In my last post I talked about the mechanics of memory, and the way those mechanics take a narrative form. I traced the ways affect potentiates memory, and the way both affect and memory…
