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Bittersweet Worlds [by Nin Andrews]
A few summers ago I was in Maine, looking out from our house at a meadow full of bittersweet when I asked a poet-friend and gardener extraordinaire, “How do you get rid of bittersweet?”…
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Francisco’s Rubén: A Latinx Poet Gathers His Graces [by Michael Dowdy]
After Rubén : A Book Launch for Francisco Aragón with Fellow Macondo Readers takes place on Tuesday, March 3, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Central Library, Latino Collection and Resource Center as…
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Even Bad Books Have Their Charms [by David Lehman]
Even bad books have their charms.Last night I read such a bookthe title of which I shall not mentionnor will I name the book's authorwho thinks that at the end of "Dark Passage"Bogart…
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CALLING ALL TATTOOED POETS!
Triptych of Vinny Valenzuela's Buddha Hard to believe that for 12 years we have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets for Tattoosday's…
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“The Trouble Ball” [by Martín Espada]
For my father, Frank Espada In 1941, my father saw his first big league ballgame at Ebbets Fieldin Brooklyn: the Dodgers and the Cardinals. My father took his father’s hand.When the umpires lumbered…
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The Making of the Oxford Canon: Scary Poetry [by David Lehman]
From Oxford University Press (12/20/06): <<<Waking up every day this week to David Lehman’s thoughts on American poetry might actually turn me into a morning person. Today, Lehman, editor of The Oxford Book of American…
