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Karen Steinmetz, Guest Author January 11-15
This week we welcome Karen Steinmetz as our guest author. Karen is a poet and novelist. Her poems have appeared in The Cortland Review, Coal Hill Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, So…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Derrick Brown of Write Bloody Publishing
DD: The entry for “American Poetry” in an old edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics reads: “The often idiosyncratic strength, boldness, and ambition of American poetry derives from two interrelated factors: its…
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I Don’t Like Poetry, I’m Not a Poetry Person [by Tara Skurtu]
Every time I hear someone say I don’t like poetry, or I’m not a poetry person, I think the opposite is true. I believe everyone is a poetry person. Poetry is just a form…
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Thoreau’s Nephew: Romania’s Literary Slaughterhouse [by Tara Skurtu]
Poets be warned. Only in Romania is there a poetry reading series known as the slaughterhouse. It’s called Thoreau’s Nephew (Nepotu´ lui Thoreau) and takes place in a brightly painted, very smoky bar called…
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WSJ Message in a Bottle: David Lehman Takes On Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Century
PHOTO: LETTERING BY ANGELA SOUTHERN; F. MARTIN RAMIN/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (BOTTLE) 1. The Background Frank Sinatra discovered Jack Daniel’s one sleepless night in the early 1940s. “It’s been the oil to my engine…
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Sir Walter Raleigh’s “On the Cards and Dice” [by David Lehman]
Before the sixth day of the next new year,Strange wonders in this kingdom shall appear:Four kings shall be assembled in this isle,Where they shall keep great tumult for awhile.Many men then shall have an…
