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Indie Poetry Bestseller List for the Second Quarter 2014
Compiled by the American Booksellers Association, and based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States, for the twelve-week sales period ending April 27, 2014. For information on more titles, please…
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Wordsworth’s sonnet on the sonnet (“Nuns fret not. . . “)
The subject of many poems is poetry itself, and here is a great example: Wordsworth's sonnet on the sonnet, which dwells on the paradox — dear to poets' hearts — of freedom within,…
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Point Counterpoint: David Lehman and Amy Gerstler on Mad Men Season 7 Episode 3
L to R: Jim Cutler, Joan P. Harris (nee Holloway), and Bert Cooper On Monday, April 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM David Lehman wrote: Dear Future Professor of "Mad Men" Studies, This is…
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Luisa Igloria: fully loaded with prompts, the skinny on improvisation, ‘being stuck’ as a temporary condition, and what comes of writing a poem a day for over 1,000 days running [by Martha Silano]
I found out about Luisia Igloria's plethora of writing exercise prompts on my Facebook newsfeed. Like many of you, I signed on to write a poem a day in April for National Poetry Month,…
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Augury Books Open for Submissions! [by Kate Angus]
Augury Books is delighted to announce that our spring/summer 2014 reading period opens for submissions on May 1st. This year, we will be accepting poetry manuscripts, as well as short fiction collections and creative…
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“Memories of the Past at Red Cliff” [“Nian Nu Jiao” by Su Shi]
East flows the mighty river,Sweeping away the heroes of time past;This ancient rampart on its western shoreIs Zhou Yu's Red Cliff of three Kingdoms' fame;Here jagged boulders pound the clouds,Huge waves tear banks apart,And…
