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This Just In . . . The First Annual Poetry Festival Pre-Fest Party!!
(view of Lady Liberty from Governors Island) From the same impresarios who bring the Poetry Brothel to major cities around the world comes this announcement: The hot city just got hotter: You are invited…
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James Fenton, Our Man in the States
James Fenton is an English poet who has always defied the stereotype. He is a splendid poet, who comes to us via Auden by way of John Fuller, and he served as Oxford Professor…
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Writers, Editors, Journals, Anthologies, Readers (& BAP 1994) [by Jake Adam York]
Yesterday, I sat down to the phone in my office to call a poet I very much admire (however quietly) to see if an essay he’d sent to Copper Nickel was still available. Generally…
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That’s hot, man!
"She started a heat wave, / by letting her seat wave, / and in such a way / that the customers say / that she certainly can / Can-can!"
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Traveling Libraries [by Jake Adam York]
I’m relocating to Atlanta in a few weeks. The plan is to work on a book—cultural studies meets poetics—about the ways contemporary art thinks about Civil Rights History. I’m shipping a few boxes, but…
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The Dog Ate My Homework (by Stacey Harwood)
Dear Emma, What can I say? I put The Odyssey aside to finish The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout. It's not his best so it has taken me awhile to close in on the…
