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Poets, Start Your Quills! It’s NAPOWRIMO!!!!!
Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in April, 2003, poet and Big Game Books publisher Maureen Thorson started writing a poem and posting them on her blog. Thus, National Poetry Writing Month, or…
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Send in the Crying on the Inside Kind of Clowns by Jennifer L. Knox
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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James Franco Buys Film Rights to David Lehman’s “The Last Avant-Garde” for Record Amount: Actor to Play Poet Kenneth Koch
According to Hollywood Reporter, actor/poet James Franco (above right) has paid a record price for the film rights to "The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School," David Lehman's seminal study of…
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Jennifer L. Knox Guest Blogger April 1-7
This week we welcome back Jennifer L. Knox as our guest blogger. Jennifer’s latest book of poems, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in The…
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Adrienne Rich, 1929 – 2012 [by David Lehman]
In twenty-five years of working on The Best American Poetry, I had lost only two of the guest editors with whom I worked closely for "their" year — A. R. Ammons (ed. BAP 1994)…
