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“Good Bad Titles”
On May 30, 2008, in this space, Dan Nester posted about an afternoon he and Jonah Winter spent sending up the titles that adorn poetry books. The titles that occurred to them "all seemed so…
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By Way of Introduction [by Jessica Garratt]
When I received Stacey Harwood’s gracious invitation to guest blog for Best American Poetry, it came as a surprise, and the surprise came with excitement, stitched by tinsely nerves. I’ve never blogged before, and furthermore…
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“Less Surprised” [by Herbert Engelhardt]
Older and olderI should be less surprised But still a little shockedAt seeing a dark bush On a blonde-hairedLady. ' — Herbert Engelhardt
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Jessica Garratt, Guest Blogger August 7-13
This week we welcome Jessica Garratt as our guest blogger. Jessica's book Fire Pond won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Utah Press in 2009. She earned her PhD…
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The Poet as Editor: Elizabeth Powell
All poets are overlooked, but perhaps none so consistently as the poet who doubles as a magazine or book editor. People in the same line of endeavor have a natural tendency to compete. The…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews J.P. Dancing Bear of Dream Horse Press
NA: First, how did you come up with the name, Dream Horse Press? JPDB: The long story short is that my first author had a dream about a white horse carrying his…
