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Poets Do Thanksgiving, 2008-2010, A Look Back
First, a poem: Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I am not at one with nature. Never was.…
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Happy Coconut (posted by Bruce Covey)
In addition to the three collections available for AWP that I talked about on Monday, Coconut will be publishing six other new books in 2012-2013. Maybe more! I’m going to be working with a…
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Bagging the Whole “Be” Thing (Posted by Bruce Covey)
Yesterday I said I was going to talk about distribution paths for poetry, but mine certainly isn’t any kind of definitive word. We choose how we give and get our poems; we choose which…
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November 22, 1963 [by James Cummins]
1 I sat in Miss Reynolds’s biology class the day we all remember what we were doing. I seem to recollect dissecting a fetal pig; but perhaps, like Vardaman, I only conflated physical and…
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Nudity Protest Spreads to Israel
Giving a new meaning to "Gaza Strip," forty Israeli women disrobed in solidarity with the nude Cairo blogger, twenty-year-old Aliaa Elmahdy, who kicked up a ruckus and a fundamentalist backlash when she bared all…
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Be AWP (Posted by Bruce Covey)
Today everyone seems to be getting ready for AWP, including me. It’s funny to start so early—I usually wait till the last minute on everything. But as soon as one AWP ends, panel proposals—&…
