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Evie Shockley’s Answers [by H. L. Hix]
Evie Shockley is the author of /a half-red sea/ and currently guest edits /jubilat/. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. 2. If you could send Obama one…
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Jesse Nathan’s Answers [by H. L. Hix]
Jesse Nathan is the author of Dinner (a chapbook of poems), an editor at McSweeney's publishing in San Francisco, and the managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. 1. What poet should be…
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Inaugural Ode Contest in the News
The Associated Press reports: Poets see Obama Inauguration Possibilities John F. Kennedy was the first American president to include a poet in his inauguration, and Bill Clinton was only the second. Now, poets and poetry lovers…
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Strikes are general … [by Moira Egan]
all over Italy. (Though I guess we're feeling somewhat blessed to be inundated with water rather than with fire, as has been happening in Greece.) Tomorrow there will be another general strike: trains,…
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Our European Correspondent in the News
We know our European Correspondent Moira Egan is wonderful. She's celebrated in her home town, here. Congratulations, Moira. — sdh
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“Growing God” [by Veronica Castrillon]
Growing God is what I’m doing whenI ask if you’ve eaten, wouldyou like me to prepare a bite for you. No a or the needed:I know what I see, who isstanding in my kitchen,…
