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  • Thursday October 6: Big Apple BAP 6:30 PM One and One Bar & Restaurant, 76 East 1st Street, NYC

    October 5, 2011

    Don't miss this opportunity to hear some of NYC's finest established and emerging poets!  Each has had at least one poem included in a volume of the Best American Poetry annual series.  Here's the…

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  • Poet in Charlottesville, 1980 by John Lane

    October 4, 2011

    In Charlottesville I stumbled into a short career as a chef. I was a Hoyns Fellow, a poet, a young intellectual in love with the world inside my head, a world of words, ideas…

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  • An Interview with Alex Crowley, winner of the Paul Violi Poetry Prize [by Stephanie Paterik]

    October 4, 2011

    When the poet Paul Violi passed away last spring, his friends and colleagues created a poetry prize in his honor. It is a fitting tribute, considering he inspired incredible loyalty and enthusiasm in his…

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  • Poet in Port Townsend, 1978 by John Lane

    October 3, 2011

    Outside beside the door at Copper Canyon press there was a pile of Douglas fir chord wood for the stove. Before I came in to work in the mornings I'd split the wood into…

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  • John Lane, Guest Blogger October 2-8

    October 3, 2011

    This week we welcome back John Lane as our guest blogger.  John teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for Environmental Studies. His ABANDONED QUARRY: NEW & SELECTED…

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  • Poet in New York – Apologies to Federico García Lorca by John Lane

    October 2, 2011

    Three weeks ago I was in New York City to visit family and do a couple of “salon” poetry readings, one uptown at a friend’s apartment to a group of thirty or so of…

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