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Year in Review: POEMS BY AMELIA ROSSELLI AND A CONVERSATION WITH ROSSELLI TRANSLATOR DIANA THOW [ROBERT FERNANDEZ, July 8, 2012]]
Please welcome the scholar and translator Diana Thow, who for today’s entry has generously provided poems from her translation of Amelia Rosselli's Serie Ospedaliera (Hospital Series) in addition to some illuminating and insightful Rosselli context and…
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Poetry Forum: Tracy K. Smith 6:30 p.m. The New School Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, Ground Floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
On December 4th at the New School, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, Tracy K. Smith, will join David Lehman to read her poems and discuss her work. A former student of Lehman,…
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The Year in Review: A Moment of Respite [by Alice Kaplan, July 6, 2012]
In Brief (but not so brief….) On Thursday the newspaper announced that a new law would allow people to take paying guests in their homes. Will tourism be born again? There are cash machines…
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ELLISTON POET-IN-RESIDENCE, R.I.P.: A NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FUNERAL [by Jim Cummins]
Thanks so much to BAP for inviting me back to post for a week. I warned Stacey to be ready for a nostalgia bath: it’s the end of the year and I thought I’d…
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From the Department of “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”
We get lots of requests from publicists, usually to review a forthcoming book or write a feature about an author. This one came in today. (I'm not sure why, but withholding the name of…
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This Just In: Available for Pre-Order!
Luke Hankins, who guest blogged here a few weeks ago, writes to tell us that his anthology, Poems of Devotion, will be released on November 30th and is available for pre-order at 20% off…
