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  • LIT Magazine #19 Release Party

    February 17, 2011

    Click on it for the full details!  Should be awesome!

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  • Belated Happy Birthday BAP Blog (How could I forget?) by Stacey Harwood

    February 16, 2011

    (Stacey (l) and David celebrating this blog's first year) We launched roughly three years ago  (on January 17, 2008, to be exact), with this post. OK, so we haven't kept up with the monthly…

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  • Stevie Smith and Coleridge’s “Person from Porlock”

    February 16, 2011

    Stevie Smith [left] has a wonderful poem about the "person from Porlock" who came knocking on the door to sell Coleridge an insurance policy or something, and though he was in the middle of…

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  • Elizabeth Bishop: The Birth Date as Synecdoche [by Mark Shulgasser]

    February 16, 2011

                Born on February 8, 1911, a hundred years ago last week, Elizabeth Bishop wrote about her sudden, sickening childhood identifications with the sky-permeating female scream, and the dizzying awareness of her unavoidable fate:…

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  • This just in . . . Emma Trelles’s “Tropicalia,” winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, now available!

    February 15, 2011

      "In Tropicalia, Emma Trelles gives us Miami–the flora, the fauna, the languages, the interstate. Her poems are luxurious and scrumptious, socially relevant, with oomph and sizzle. The buoyancy of her images and the poignancy of her direct language…

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  • The Wondrous Juxtapositions of Tom Clark

    February 15, 2011

    Tom Clark's blog continues to be an exemplum of ingenuity and a rich source of ideas, as you'll see if you check out his recent post on Kafka and progress — or this one…

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