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The Best American Poetry 2010 – Behind the Scene: David Lehman Interviews Matthew Yeager
Matthew Yeager is one of my favorite up and coming poets, completely original and surprising, so I was delighted that he agreed to be interviewed by David Lehman about "from A Jar of Balloons…
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Apocalypse Now…Or a Little Later? [by Eleanor Goodman]
Am I unusual in feeling that there’s something increasingly schizophrenic about our public life? According to the New York Times, BP’s apocalyptic oil spill continues to kill giant sea turtles by the boatload and…
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A Poet of the World (by Eleanor Goodman)
Jared Smith is a poet I have admired for many years. I met him once by chance, on a day in July so humid that even the trees looked resentful, and we had a…
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“Drifting Souls” [poem by Robert Schultz / print by Binh Danh]
DRIFTING SOULS This narrow leaf one hand-spanWide contains a landscapePock-marked, cracked, stained tan Like smoke. Within it figures wrappedIn dust stand fixed in sightAs if inside a rifle’s scope. But for now they will…
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“My Life As A Test” — by Mitch Sisskind
This is the most exciting, most challenging project I've ever come up with — a full-length autobiography in the form of an SAT test! As the video clip below explains, I will share all…
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A Modest Meditation on Home [by Eleanor Goodman]
“The perpetual ideal is astonishment,” Derek Walcott writes in the title poem of his painfully beautiful new book White Egrets. I take this to be true and essential in life as well as in…
