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Learning the Alphabet by Amy McDaniel
First, an explanation: My name is Amy McDaniel, and it has been a month since Stacey graciously introduced me (scroll down to "In other news") as a new guest blogger. As she mentions, I…
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A Poetics Prosody Commonplace Post by Daniel Nester
— Eleanor Berry, "The Free Verse Spectrum" "I know some will say it is a mingled language. And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other? Another will…
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Greg McBride Wins Liam Rector Prize (Terence Winch)
In a confluence that was personally gratifying for me, I recently learned that one friend of mine won a prize named for another friend of mine. Greg McBride, who arrived in the poetry world…
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On Two Versions of Robert Creeley’s “Self-Portrait” by Daniel Nester
I. That ambivalent, oblique, laconic way of speaking, it’s very self-defensive, but it thinks of itself as very up-front. A really charming guy last night, one of the musicians, said to me ‘Hey, man,…
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Poets and Writers MFA Rankings: Garbage in Garbage Out by Stacey Harwood
If you do a "close" reading of the P&W methodology section you will see what shifting sand the ranking is based on (background on rankings is here). Most of what is in the methodology…
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W.H. Auden’s ‘Daydream College for Bards’ by Daniel Nester
Hey there. Daniel Nester here. I've guest-blogged before in this space, so I'll cut to the quick and start posting things. If you want to know more about me and whatnot, check out where…
