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God’s Optimism in April (by Jenny Factor)
At the AWP conference in Chicago, I attended a panel–the first panel of the first morning–on contemporary Jewish poetry. There was a lot of genius at that table, and an adorable baby in the…
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NaPoWriMo Day #12
Cruising around the blogs this evening, I found some sites on the NaPoWriMo list that didn’t have any poems at all, some of which were very cool, like this flog, this flog, and this…
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On Reading Part II: Reader’s Block (by Jenny Factor)
One of my writing friends asked me a week ago whether I'd ever heard of a problem where writing is going fine, but all of a sudden,…
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“When I told my mother I was a restaurant critic . . .
Mimi Sheraton she said, ‘What do you want to do that for? A man works hard, he has his own place, he has a successful business, a wife, children. All is well. Then in…
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Let’s Get this Party (Kick) Started!! Help fund the Second Annual New York Poetry Festival
Our enterprising friends over at the Poetry Society of New York are planning the second annual New York Poetry Festival (July 21-22), which is going to be bigger and better than last year's wildly…
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Jenny Factor, Guest Blogger April 8-14
This week we welcome back Jenny Factor as our guest blogger. Jenny's first collection, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press), was a finalist for the 2002 Lambda Literary Award. Factor's poems have appeared…
