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A limited, limiting clarity: A conversation between Paul Vangelisti and Standard Schaefer. By Sarah Suzor
From George Oppen’s poem, “Route” (1968): Your elbow on a car-edge Incognito as summer, I wrote. Not you but a girl At least Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in…
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Omnipotent: A conversation between Omnidawn Publishing’s Rusty Morrison and Gillian Hamel. By Sarah Suzor
Umberto Eco, from his collection of essays, On Literature (English translation published in 2004): I have often asked myself: would I still write today if they told me that tomorrow a cosmic catastrophe would…
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It’s National Haiku Day!
Celebrate by entering the Library Hotel's haiku challenge for a chance to win a two-night stay in the hotel's Poetry Room (299 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017). All you have to doto win…
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Reading for the Collected Poems of Joseph Ceravolo: Wednesday April 17, 8:00 @ The Poetry Project
St. Mark’s Church | 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 | 212-674-0910 | We're celebrating Wesleyan University Press’s long-anticipated landmark edition of Ceravolo’s poems with an all-star reading: David Lehman, Charles North,…
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Poetry on the Red Carpet – Tune In @bestampo
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 6:30pm, the Academy of American Poets will present the 11th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway, New York, NY). Special…
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“PEACE AND WAR IN AMERICAN POETRY” by David Lehman
"daybreak gray and dim . . . " The US Library of Congress invited David Lehman to contribute to a series of essays by leaders in the literary field, including former Poets Laureate…
