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Extreme Elegies [by Michael Schiavo]
Michael Gizzi (1949-2010) Morgan Lucas Schuldt passed away on January 30 due to complications from cystic fibrosis. I wanted to sketch a portrait of Morgan for this blog, wanted to write about not…
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Happy Birthday Marianne Moore (by Anthony Madrid)
MARIANNE MOORE (11/15) One hundred twenty-five today || Madrid is keeping score || A very happy birthday to || the incomparable Marianne Moore An amber-tinted philatelist || inhabits the ocean floor || A very…
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The Best American Poetry 2012 Draws a Crowd in California [by Stephanie Brown]
The crowd turns out for the Best American Poetry 2012 Launch at the Mill Valley, CA public library (photo by Mill Valley public library). About 260 people reserved seats for The Best American…
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“FIU Reading by David Lehman” (by Robert B. Miller)
I don’t know where he hung his hatbut am sure it was well placed—as we hungon his every word, gracefully placed,as he graced you, which was needed by me, and usfor a reading that…
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The Year in Review: Send in the Crying on the Inside Kind of Clowns by Jennifer L. Knox (April 1, 2012)
Writing poetry to get laughs is like becoming a nun to get laid: it’s absolutely the wrong way to go about it. Young people start writing poems to convey their loneliness. But when they…
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Asylum Avenue: An Interview with Samuel Amadon [by Michael Schiavo]
Samuel Amadon Sam Amadon and I have known each other for over a decade. We have much in common, particularly Connecticut. I had a few questions for Sam about his second collection, The Hartford…
