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The Pursuit of the Perfect (by Rebecca Lindenberg)
On Thursday night, Timothy O’Keefe (author of The Goodbye Town, winner of the 2010 FIELD Poetry Prize) and his girlfriend, novelist Xhenet Aliu, got into town. They brought…
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A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give…
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Food/Writing [by Rebecca Lindenberg]
I love reading about food. Cookbooks, blogs, essays, you name it. And since everybody eats and therefore thinks about food, you can find writing about food from novelists…
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Mystery of AWP Elevator Poems Solved!
Jim Cummins' post yesterday about the video loop in the elevators at the recent AWP conference in Chicago caused a bit of confusion. Turns out, the videos were provided by Motionpoems, a Minneapolis-based organization…
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Mad Men by Jim Cummins
Two men walk through the boardroom. Each one carries a spear; each wears a mask. Each man is afraid of his own death, but is no less willing to strike, to rend, kill. Each…
