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Finding Your Inner Poetry Hat {Loren Goodman}
SEOUL, Korea — October 20 (Photo by Maciej Gryzbowski) If there's one thing I want to do this week, it's find my inner poetry hat. Not that I haven't been searching. For months all…
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JA on RAI [by Moira Egan]
This just in! Tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 p.m. Rome time (11 a.m. East Coast Time), listen to an interview on RAI with John Ashbery on the occasion of Un mondo che non può essere…
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Balloon Boy and the Triumph of the Poetic [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
My Darling Bleaders, I've decided to continue worrying about balloon boy, even though he never really existed. I've decided to believe that the balloon is still floating over the heartland and that its fragile…
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The Amazing Amelia (by Laura Orem)
Seventy-two years ago, Amelia Earhart flew into the wild blue yonder and never returned. What happened to her has remained a topic of conjecture and much argument over the past seven decades. A new…
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Your Desk is Your Head: The Inner Sanctum {Loren Goodman}
SEOUL, Korea, October 19 — From time to time these words from Sonny Mishra come to mind. “The nature of prose is to perish…” Looking for these words of Paul Valery, I find others:…
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This Just In . . . The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets
Congratulations to David Yezzi, for The Swallow Anthology of New America Poets. To celebrate, Yezzi is hosting a reading this Wednesday night, 7:00 PM, at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn (718) 789-1534. Yezzi…
