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Kate Middleton on “The Future of Poetry”
The Australian poet Kate Middleton, who was recommended to us by our friend Alan Wearne, has written a brief for poetry — and for the physical book. Although the very existence of these things…
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Translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “Un Voyage A Cythere” [by Sandra Simonds]
Voyage to Cythera My heart is like a bird going on a sea voyage to find utter joy,the way a well-intentioned yet anemic adolescentpins a…
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Fun Stuff Friday: Buck Downs’ Dang Yall [by Jennifer L. Knox]
The (often but not all the time like a manic clown) Very Funny Poet Buck Downs has been posting comments on Facebook with the phrase DANG YALL in them. "I've been doing it for…
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Meet the Poet: Xavier Cavazos [by Jennifer L. Knox]
When I moved to Ames, Iowa, in 2013, I was lucky enough to meet Xavier Cavazos, whose chapbook, Barbarian at the Gate, won the 2014 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. Prize judge…
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Working With Others: George Schneeman at Poets House [by Sharon Preiss]
The East Village of New York City in 1966 was a bohemian paradise. You could rent a decent sized apartment for about $200 a month; Saint Mark’s Church on East 10th and Second Avenue,…
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“I’d say a Mass for his soul.” (But first he has to die.) Graham Greene’s Wish
from Harpers, December 2007— sdh
