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More Obama for Your Poetry Buck: Harold Bloom weighs in
<<<Harold Bloom, who in fifty-three years of teaching literature at Yale University has had many undergraduate poems pressed hopefully upon him said, when reached by telephone in New Haven last week, that he was…
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a common place [by Amy Lemmon]
Mood: Medium-high exhaustion, moderate caffeination Location: The Orifice (the one at Work, not the Bed), overly air-conditioned and clotted with boxes still unpacked since my sabbatical during Fall 2007. Listening to: WFUV online (Bob…
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KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry This Fall
Next week, on Monday, September 15, Kevin Young and Janice Erlbaum will kick off the twelfth year of the KGB Monday Night Poetry reading series. This season promises to be an exciting one, not…
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“Pop” [by Barack Obama]
On the basis of two poems Barack Obama wrote and published as an undergraduate, Ian McMillan in The Guardian opines that the Democratic nominee for president had << obviously read the Beat poets and…
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JA and JA at JA’s Opening
photo 2008(c)Star Black Actress Joan Allen was among the fans who poured into the Tibor de Nagy gallery in NYC last week for a show of John Ashbery’s collages. She liked especially the collage…
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out of the cradle haplessly blogging [by Amy Lemmon]
Greetings, Dear Reader! Much love and gratitude to the BAP team for inviting me. I think Walt would love this blog–its democracy, its expanse, its containing of multitudes. I’m thrilled to be here–I hope…
