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Announcing “Resurrection Biology” by Laura Orem
The Best American Poetry Blog is pleased to announce that Resurrection Biology, the first full-length collection by featured blogger Laura Orem, is now available for preorder from Finishing…
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Balanchine on Dance [by David Lehman]
George Balanchine (1904-1983) is tremendously quotable – if only because so many of his bon mots are adapted from others. When he declared himself to be “not a man but a cloud in trousers,”…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Martha Rhodes, James Fujinami Moore, Ryan Murphy, and Sally Ball of Four Way Books
DD: Four Way Books began in 1991, as a venture between you and your graduate school friends: Beth Stahlecker, Jane Brox, Dzivinia Orlowsky, and Helen Fremont. How have these friendships influenced the evolution and…
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Ohio-soul to the smarmy ones placed above me: why no paid vacation for American Fifi?
Series 1, Part 1: On whether she comes running at the snap of my fingers, the bonheur of Fifi here-below, the righteous rage of the Ohio-soul, a woman’s wrath, the true niceties of human…
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Grace Notes: An Interview with the Incomparable Nin Andrews
Grace Cavalieri's interview with Nin Andrews is a must read. Here is a little sampler: <<< Poetry, when it’s happening, is like sex. It totally suffuses me. (I like the word, suffuse.) Afterwards I…
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I Built This Room [by Michael Malinowitz]
I built this room by myselfAnd put into it only things that wouldMatter to me: around an eyelidWindow to view the lastQuarter moons, I stacked books,Only those read or intendedAnd music which outnumberBooks. I…
