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The New School Announces the Winner of the Second Annual Paul Violi Prize
Justin Sherwood, Winner of the 2012 Paul Violi Prize Justin Sherwood has won the second annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry for a selection of original poems entitled “Abeyance.” Honorable mention goes to…
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59 BITS FROM TANYA LARKIN’S *MY SCARLET WAYS* [selected by Anthony Madrid]
(Larkin, Tanya. My Scarlet Ways. Saturnalia Books, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-9833686-3-2. $14.) ❖ a proletariat anthem that sweetens wells cranks swings and lands kids on their feet. ❖ I will faint…
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From the Archive: When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems (by Laurence Goldstein)
(Ed note: Anthony Madrid posts thus far are pretty terrific, yes? I kow you agree so to show your appreciation you should buy his book. His post about translation got me free associating until…
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Forty Swimsuits [by Molly Arden]
Tonight’s entry begins in the small closet in the upstairs hall. There, a bag of shameful confirmation is knotted evidence of a ritual I’ve practiced since my teens. It’s difficult to discuss without the…
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ONE LITTLE IDEA ABOUT TRANSLATION [by Anthony Madrid]
YEARS AGO, I was tutoring a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl named Ryann. Ideal kid. Wide-awake, responsive, ready for anything. She had an assignment to write a poem for school, so I was gonna show…
