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That’s Extra [by Elena Karina Byrne]
I was in a typical hotspot L.A. restaurant with a friend, also a poet, ordering sushi. I asked for the spicy tuna roll without the cucumber. "That will be an extra charge of 50…
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Jarrell’s well-tuned “Piano” (by David Yezzi)
In writing a review recently of William H. Pritchard's latest essay collection On Poets & Poetry, I got a chance to reread Randall Jarrell's sweeping-gorgeous-funny-breathtaking poem "The Player Piano." I just can't believe the way this poem…
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Greg Santos Interviews Jason Camlot (part 2)
For part one of Greg Santos's interview with Canadian poet, click here — and read some of Camlot's poems here and here: GS: In your poem “The Death of Roland As Peanuts Panel” you’re…
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This Just In . . . Early Buzz for Lehman’s “A Fine Romance”
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs David Lehman. Nextbook/Schocken, $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4250-8 (From Publishers Weekly, August 10, 2009): As part of the publisher's ongoing Jewish Encounters series, Lehman, poet, anthologist (The Oxford…
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Back to Reality and Hard Good-byes (by Laura Orem)
I just got back from ten days at a writing retreat in New Hampshire, so I'm a little gaga from culture shock. Ten days of peace, quiet, beautiful surroundings, and a gourmet chef placing…
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PROZAC, ANGST, AUTHENTICITY AND OUR DUENDE [by Elena Karina Byrne]
Sweet are the uses of adversity –Shakespeare, As You Like It No, "Fear Factor" is not a television show, but a mantra of our times. Politics thrive on fear. We…
