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Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, Guest Authors November 9-13
This week we welcome Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton as our guest authors. Denise and Maureen have been collaborating for over twenty-five years. Their latest book Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations houses their earlier volumes Exquisite…
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Notes on the Poetry Project, January 1, 1992 [by Daniel Nester]
I will close out this week with something from sorta-kinda from my new book. This is an early version of one of the chapters from my soon-to-be-released book, a memoir called Shader. This chapter tells the story of…
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20 Things Not to Do at an Open Poetry Reading [by Daniel Nester]
1. Write your name illegibly on the sign-up sheet. 2. Complain to host when he/she can’t read/pronounce your last name. 3. Go over the allotted time, so much so that you are mistaken for…
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On “What Shall We Ask of Writers?” by Albert Maltz (1946) [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Do his observations hold true today? Over at Design*Sponge, one of my favorite blogs, Grace Bonney has introduced a new column wherein she asks favorite artists or designers to show and describe their teenage bedrooms.…
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Your Five Favorite Songs and Dances [by David Lehman]
I sometimes think that the ideal form for some poems may be the table of contents. Inveterate list-maker that I am, I am quite certain that the list or catalogue qualifies as a distinctively…
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Swoonatra: The Hits Keep Coming! [by Stacey Harwood]
Sinatra’s Century by David Lehman David continues to get well-deserved praise for Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World. Friends both near and far are writing to tell him how much…
