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  • BAP 2011 Comics continued (Anne Marie Rooney) by Nin Andrews

    October 27, 2011

     Read the complete poem here.

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  • Booo! Poets on Parade: Sunday, October 30, 6:00 PM, West Village, NYC

    October 26, 2011

    On Sunday, October 30, Bloof Books, one of our favorite indie presses, is hosting a street-art parade of costumed poets through the West Village in the spooky spirit of Halloween.  Hanna Andrews, Shanna Compton,…

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  • The Poetry of Philip Levine: Is a Working Class Hero Something to Be? By Earle Hitchner

    October 26, 2011

    John Lennon, the son of working class parents in Liverpool, recorded an answer. Dig out your copy of the John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band album from 1970 and listen to “Working Class Hero”…

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  • Occupying Providence with Alfred Corn and Doug Anderson (by Leslie McGrath)

    October 26, 2011

    I spend so much time online that the majority of my friendships are virtual, particularly friendships with other poets. We’ve taken to the quiet and ease of the electronic ether like the strange birds…

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  • Frequency North, Slam Poetry in Albany and Other Readings-Type Things [Daniel Nester]

    October 25, 2011

    Greetings from the Capital Region, 800,000- and four counties-strong. We're north of the Hudson Valley, south of the North Country, west of Western Massachusetts, east of Central New York. So now you know where…

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  • Imagine Bartleby in Today’s Job Market – by Earle Hitchner

    October 24, 2011

    At the risk of annoying the apolitical or infuriating the politically antithetical, I admit I’m dismayed by all the brickbats hurled at the spreading Occupy Wall Street movement. The main accusations are that OWS,…

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