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Star Black’s Photographs of the BAP 2011 Launch After Party
The Best American Poetry 2011 Guest Editor Kevin Young (left) with Major Jackson and Cyrus Cassells. photo(c)Star Black The BAP 2011 launch on September 22, 2011 was a huge success, with knockout readings by…
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Pathologically Poetic [by Lisa Vihos]
In Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding, edited by James E. Maddux and Barbara A. Winstead, I have come across some interesting tidbits during these first few weeks of fall semester that I have…
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Ossip and Wheeler at KGB, Ben Lerner at the New School
Poetry, as Ezra Pound asserted in an unpublished letter to Sloan, is "elegance in its most aggressive form," and whether this is a phrase charged with meaning or merely a slogan that a car…
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Buttercup, Hammer, Change is Here [by Lisa Vihos]
Greetings, all. I am happy to be here as your guest blogger starting today and for the coming week. Yesterday was a big day; one I had been planning since April. September 24th was…
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Lisa Vihos, Guest Blogger September 25-October 1
This week we welcome back Lisa Vihos as our guest blogger. Lisa is the director of alumni relations at Lakeland College in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where she is also pursuing a Masters of Counseling degree.…
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Vital Signs (by Damon McLaughlin)
For my last trick this week, I’m going to write about some ideas I had when at Toad Hall. I think we were talking about Flarf and Language poetry when one of us—or maybe…
