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Teaching Poetry in Bangladesh: The Rest of the Class [by Amy McDaniel]
The Rest of the Poem by Kunwar Narain Translated from the Hindi by Lucy Rosenstein Water falling on leaves means one thingLeaves falling on water another.Between gaining life fullyand giving it away fullystands a…
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Marquis de Concord [by Michael Schiavo]
Here’s an excerpt from an unfinished interview I did with Pete Anatra for the Chocolate Submarine Review But isn’t Emerson fairly stodgy? Let’s do some comparative literature. Here’s Emerson from an essay that…
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This Condensery [by Michael Schiavo]
I’m always intrigued when poets put down technology. Blogs, Twitter, the Internet, email, even computers themselves come under attack from poets who believe that in order to keep themselves pure they must not just…
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David Lehman’s Foreword to The Best American Poetry 2011 Featured on Poetry Daily
"What makes a poem great? What standards do we use for judging poetic excellence? To an extent, these are variants on an even more basic question. What is poetry? Poetry is, after all, not…
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Exile On Main Street [by Michael Schiavo]
I’d like to say that people . . . See, see, they used to ask me: “So how you . . . you guys think you’re gonna change the world?”
