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  • Tonight at KGB: Post-AWP Half-Open Mic

    March 11, 2013

    KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…   Post-AWP Half-Open Mic Night   Monday, March 11th, 2013 Doors open at 7:00 pm Reading starts at 7:15 pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th…

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  • The APBT (by Mitch Sisskind)

    March 11, 2013

    Could anything be more self-sabotaging to a poetry career than writing about pit bull fanatics — and not like Harvard Man George Plimpton goes slumming among the pit bull fanatics but from insidethe heads of…

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  • A Writer’s Lament, or The History of My Misfortunes Part I [by Jeffrey Meyers]

    March 11, 2013

    Jeffrey Meyers in Casablanca Ed note: This is the first in a series of five posts by Jeffrey Meyers.  Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently published Samuel Johnson: The…

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  • Megin Jimenez, Guest Blogger March 11-15

    March 10, 2013

    This week we welcome back Megin Jimenez as our guest blogger. Megin was born in Mérida, Venezuela and grew up in Denver. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, LIT, NOÖ Journal, and Sentence, among…

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  • The Secret of Secrets [by Sir Henry Taylor]

    March 9, 2013

    From Sir Henry Taylor, "On Secrecy" (1836: <<< A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. >>> I believe Poe was paying attention. Borges, too. —…

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  • Celebrate 25 Years of The Best American Poetry! Save the Dates for Launch Readings

    March 9, 2013

    Now available for pre-order:  Launch readings hosted by David Lehman and Robert Pinsky and featuring poets included in this volume: Boston – April 4, 6:00 PM:  Metcalf Building, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue,…

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