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  • Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 13—Seven short poems of landscape and love

    September 14, 2014

    Seven short poems of landscape and love   Homing In Here again.Dark’s falling. Standon the corner of the verandahin the glass cold clearnight, looking outto emerald and ruby harbourlights:          too sharp to stayout long,          …

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  • “Wherever you’re from sucks . . . ” When at a Certain Party in NYC (poem by Erin Belieu)

    September 12, 2014

    (Ed note: When Erin inteviewed Mark Bibbins, he asked her to include one of her own poems. This was not to be so here is a Motionpoems video of Erin's terrific "When at a…

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  • Interviews With Poets–Day 4–Cate Marvin (by Erin Belieu)

    September 11, 2014

    Good morning again. I have so many poets I wanted to interview that I’m going to have to scramble to get them all in. Too many worthy subjects…  (Update: the kind wizard behind the…

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  • #TBT: A Couple of Swells by Stacey Harwood

    September 11, 2014

    So I took this photo the first time I met Erin. It was shortly after I had moved to New York City and I was quite nervous. We were at David's Greenwich Village apartment,…

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  • ALAN ZIEGLER: TEN SIPS AT A CAFE

    September 11, 2014

    sip one A café can also go under the name diner, coffee house, coffee shop, or bistro. My mother turned a Woolworths lunch counter into a café. She knew what the people liked and…

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  • Next Line, Please: Old Acrostic, New Acrostic by David Lehman

    September 10, 2014

    The American Scholar's Next Line, Please contest continues with a crowd-sourced five-line acrostic poem. Here's how David Lehman introduced the contest: We are going to write an acrostic based on an epigraph. The poem…

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