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Bloof Books Poets at KGB Bar [by Megin Jimenez]
February 28, 2011. Shanna Compton (far left), founder of Bloof Books (as in BLOOF!, the comic book noise), opens the reading with poems from a manuscript in progress, “exploring cliché and melodrama”. One of…
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Laura Orem Presents a Poem by Damon McLaughlin
Toad Hall Press is pleased to announce that Damon McLaughlin of Tucson AZ has won their 2011 Chapbook Prize for his collection, Olduvai Theory. The judges commended "his deft lyric voice, his mastery of…
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Race Riot Addendum [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Bleaders, Can I just say? I'm not mad at Tony Hoagland for writing a racist poem. I like a lot of Tony Hoagland's poetry. And someone has likened his faux pas in this poem…
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This just in: Calling all former CETA artists! Tell your story.
"CETA made me a working artist and meant that I got up each morning with an arts agenda . . . It gave me a sense of the artist's place in the community." Bill…
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Happy Birthday, Richard Wilbur, 90 years old today!
Mind Mind in its purest play is like some bat That beats about in caverns all alone, Contriving by a kind of senseless wit Not to conclude against a wall of stone. It has…
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Happy Birthday, Robert Lowell (by Laura Orem)
Today marks the 94th birthday of Robert Lowell, one of the most influential poets, both personally and artistically, of the mid-20th century. He was difficult, brilliant, lascivious with female students. He was tormented by…
