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Peter Jay Shippy wins our first poetry contest (2007)
HERE'S THE CHALLENGE: John Lawrence Ashbery, guest editor of the inaugural volume in The Best American Poetry series in 1988, has the same middle name as an American poet of note, born in the…
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FLASH MEMOIRS OF FOUR TEACHERS [by Alan Ziegler]
DAVID IGNATOW On February 15, 1971, I receive a telegram—a real telegram with teletype pasted onto yellow Western Union paper—announcing my acceptance into David Ignatow’s Craft of Poetry workshop at the 92nd Street Y.…
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Cambridge, England: Dining Mecca? [by Stacey Harwood]
Cambridge University, with its medieval passageways and glorious college gardens, has dominated this town for over 800 years. It is the university of Byron and Wordsworth, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking, Emma Thompson…
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TONIGHT: 22nd Annual Poets House Showcase Opening
The 22nd Annual Poets House Showcase Opening TONIGHT Thursday June 26, 2014 10 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 • 5:30-7:00pm Opening Reception • 7:00pm Readings by Meena Alexander, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David Lehman,…
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FLASH MEMOIRS OF LIFE ON THE TEACHING ROAD [by Alan Zeigler]
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (1974) Shortly after I start the graduate writing program at City College, someone tells me about Kenneth Koch’s book on teaching poetry writing to children and asks whether that is…
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The American Scholar’s Crowd-Sourced Sonnet: Looking for Line 10!
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a Shakespearean sonnet. David Lehman supplied the first line and picks subsequent lines from reader submissions. If…
