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Cara Benson, Guest Blogger June 12 – 18
This week we welcome Cara Benson as our guest blogger. Cara is the author of two books of poetry: (made) (BookThug, 2010) and Protean Parade (Black Radish Books, 2012). Her chapbook "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the bpNichol…
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Larry Rivers and Phoebe Legere
I really like Larry Rivers — painter, musician, genuinely peculiar person, possibly dangerous to himself and others, a real hipster at heart. I've read his autobiography, entitled What Did I Do?, and enjoyed learning…
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In This Valley of Dying Stars by Tracy K. Smith
It’s been an exhilarating week for me, reading quickly and deeply, and then finding the words to record the flurry of emotions unleashed by each successive voice. And recording these reflections has been a…
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Into the Woods by Tracy K. Smith
Years ago, one of my professors spent the first half hour of our first class of the term reading us Italo Calvino’s version of an Italian folktale called “The Parrot,” about a merchant who…
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Freud Quiz # 27
In addition to John Huston's movie Freud, starring Montgomery Clift, which of these movies deals with the papa of psychoanalysis: (1) Orson Welles''s "The Trial" in which Joseph K. (Anthony Perkins) — and by…
