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The Poet as Farmer [by Laura Orem]
This is my first post as a guest blogger on BAP this week. I’ll be talking about my farm, poetry, and anything else that occurs to me. For almost two years, I’ve lived on…
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Jen Knox’s “Johns” [presented by Bruce Covey]
For those who wonder whether one john really is distinguishable from another, Coconut offers you the following poem from Jennifer L. Knox, which originally appeared in Coconut 7. Jen’s two books, A Gringo Like…
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Coconut Sundays
Editor’s note: We have asked Bruce Covey, editor of Coconut, to post a poem here from his virtual pages every Sunday from now through the end of October. Bruce will preface each poem with…
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Dylan Entry in “Oxford Book of American Poetry”
Bob Dylan is represented in the 2006 edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry with "Desolation Row" and this head note. We’re curious to know how readers react to the inclusion of Dylan’s…
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Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb was dropped at 11:02 AM on this day in 1945: nicknamed "the Fat Man," the bomb devastated Nagasaki and demonstrated that the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier was repeatable.…
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Music and Poems, Part 5 [by Lloyd Schwartz]
(The bittersweet conclusion of the story of my poems being set to music by the composition fellows at Tanglewood) July 30, 2008: Grand Finale Last night’s concert was a memorable event. Nearly 300 people—friends…
