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ee cum[mings] [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Does everyone know this ee cummings poem? It will rock yer glockenspiel, so read it. XXX i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious…
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Monday @ KGB: Tina Chang + Angie Estes
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Tina Chang + Angie Estes Tonight! October 3 Hosted by Megin Jimenez and Matthew Yeager Reading starts at 7:30pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th…
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Poets House and Statue of Liberty: Partners in Tweets [by Nicholas Shapland]
The poet Emma Lazarus may not have envisioned Twitter when she wrote the sonnet that graces the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor but it is that sonnet, The New Colossus,…
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A Resistance to Emerson [by Michael Schiavo]
In the January 2011 issue of Harper’s, Philip Lopate writes eloquently, as ever, about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journals, recently published in two volumes by the Library of America. I’m always happy when anyone mentions…
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Exile On Main Street [by Michael Schiavo]
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born: that they are not superior to the citizen: that every one…
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Michael Schiavo, Guest Blogger October 9-15
This week we welcome back Michael Schiavo as our guest blogger. Michael is the author of The Mad Song (Shires Press) and the chapbooks 275 Ocean Avenue, Beautiful School (both from his imprint Gondola), Ranges I (H_NGM_N) and Ranges II (Forklift). As an undergraduate at…
