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Summer Reading List – Cara Benson
This will be thoroughly negligent and absolutely incomplete. Some of these are new; some are from my ever-growing wish I could get to every book I like in a sort of Faustian manner list.…
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Arab Spring
In Egypt, the ear of a Coptic Christian was cut offby partisans of the new regime In Tripoli, more than 250 women saythey were raped by Qadaffi's thugs In Egypt, the new regime holds…
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Unicorn Evil Records: A Short Interview with Guy Pettit [by Amy Lawless]
Guy Pettit recently started a poetry music label called Unicorn Evil Records with Michael Barron that is worthy of much admiration. I wanted to hear all about it and share my findings with you, so I…
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Talking Poetry, Trance, and the Body with Kristin Prevallet – Cara Benson
Kristin Prevallet is the author of four books of poetry, including I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and a PEN translation fund award.…
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“You have to learn to write a different kind of poem”: An Interview with Dan Boehl [by Ben Mirov]
Kings of the Fucking Sea, Dan Boehl's new poetry collection from Birds LLC, is a phantasmagoric adventure about dissolution, loss and pirates. I talked to him about the role of painters in his work,…
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Shorter, Hence Sweeter – Cara Benson
A bit of talk on verbosity here this week, from a comment on Derrida, who seemingly always took ten words to do the work of one, to an article containing advice on legalese…
