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  • Anthony Madrid, Guest Blogger May 13-19

    May 12, 2012

    This week we welcome Anthony Madrid as our guest blogger.  Anthony lives in Chicago.  His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS.  His…

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  • Homage to Joe Brainard [by Jacques Bernard]

    May 12, 2012

    Nancy Diptych At the New School's Tishman Auditorium on Tuesday, May 8, writers who knew and loved Joe Brainard (1941-1994) read from the Library of America's new edition of the artist's collected literary works.…

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  • Your Financial IQ [or, Finance for Poets, Part VI]

    May 12, 2012

    We asked our broker friend Eric Rice to devise a shortcut list of sample questions that would determine your financial intelligence quotient. It is Eric's belief — and one we share — that any…

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  • Beautiful werewolf… by Peter Jay Shippy

    May 12, 2012

    Thanks so much to Stacey & David for allowing to me visit.  And much thanks to you, for stopping by! For my final poem-as-text for a children’s book, I’ll go back, just a bit. …

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  • PSA Hosts Annual Award Ceremony: Marilyn Nelson Delivers Frost Medal Lecture (by Madge McKeithen)

    May 12, 2012

    Wanda Coleman, above left, and Marilyn Nelson, above right “The hunger to be heard can be crippling,” Wanda Coleman said.  “Tonight, their work has been elevated to its proper place, validated, the burden a…

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  • “Wild Nights!” [by Alex Bennett]

    May 11, 2012

    Wild Nights            after Emily Dickinson Wild wild wild wild wild wild nights.           Were I with thee with thee wild nights.           Were I with thee with I nights.Wild nights wild nights these should be hour…

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