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From the Beautiful to the Perverse: A Talk with Jericho Brown and Dawn Lundy Martin
I hear tell that listening to some folks talk about going to Cave Canem can get as boring as listening to angels talk about heaven. I know. Everybody gets it: “You finally found a…
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On bad reviews . . .
"It's just a review, it's not a gun." Mark Morris, choreographer — sdh
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“And” versus “&” in modern poetry
In the new Poets & Writers, Kevin Nance has a fascinating piece on the ampersand in modern poetry. Click here to read it in its entirety after taking a quick peek here: <<<In the twentieth…
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Suit My Mind: A Q&A with Jericho Brown and Christine Garren
Another surprise. Let me tell you a story you don’t want to hear. After I my first book was published, I felt a sort of emptiness that I don’t know if I can explain. …
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Donald Keene moves (back) to Japan
Click here to read Jamie Katz's brilliant feature on Donald Keene, the Western world's leading interpreter of Japanese literature, a Columbia professor for more than seventy years. On a visit to Japan in 1990,…
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Either Death or Sunlight: A Talk about Publishing with Jericho Brown and Michael Dumanis
Here we are at gratitude day four, and since earlier blogs and resulting conversations this week have taught me so much about the process of selecting, anthologizing, and publishing, I thought you might be…
