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David Lehman Kicks Off BAP “Song of the Week” Residency at Coldfront.
Head on over to Coldfront where since July 2011, Jackie Clark has been curating the brilliant "Song of the Week" series. Clark invites contributors to write a short piece about a favorite song, any…
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Just Another Day at the Neighborhood Polling Place [by Stacey Harwood]
The wait to vote was only about an hour this morning, not too bad on a brisk sunny day. My polling place is an NYU building a few blocks away and as I approached…
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The Year in Review: For the Love of Poetry by Leah Umansky (January 19, 2012)
I thought I’d write tonight about poetry and the kind of poems that move me. Ironically, the poems I call my “favorites” are nothing like the poems I actually write. I never realized this…
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Word To World [ by Sholeh Wolpé ]
My mother and her sisters were born in Ishqabad, “the city of love,” in Turkmenistan. She was educated in Cypress as a nurse, speaking both Turkish and Greek. She then went to Tehran, met…
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Tracy K. Smith at the New School, December 4th [by Philip Brunst]
On December 4th at the New School, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, Tracy K. Smith, will read from her award-winning Life on Mars (Graywolf Press). She will then sit down with The…
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The Year in Review: Spend it All by Robert Baird (January 13, 2012)
Pass much time in the company of poets—young or old, online or off—and soon enough you’ll find yourself privy to the cycles of consternation and dismay inspired by the general insignificance of poetry. Even…
