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  • Nick Courtright, Guest Author April 14-18

    April 12, 2014

    This week we welcome Nick Courtright as our guest author. Nick is the author of Let There Be Light (Gold Wake, 2014), called "a continual surprise and a revelation" by Naomi Shihab Nye, and…

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  • Let the World In: David Lehman Reads at Keystone College [by Macaulay Glynn]

    April 12, 2014

          David Lehman doesn’t think poetry should be lazy.  His collections Evening Sun and Daily Mirror are a testament to this: both were the children of a five-year commitment to writing a poem a…

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  • Congratulations to Ron Padgett on Winning the L.A. Times Book Prize

    April 12, 2014

    We're pleased to learn that Ron Padgett's Collected Poems (Coffee House Press) has won the prestigious L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry. Here's an excerpt from David Lehman's recent Publishers Weekly review of Padgett's…

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  • Josephine Miles on Tom Clark’s blog: “Reason is my middle name. . .”

    April 12, 2014

    Josephine Miles, a vastly underrated Berkeley-based poet, who was A. R. Ammons's teacher, is the subject of an excellent post on Tom Clark's blog today, always worth checking out!  Here's her poem "Reason." And…

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  • Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in conversation with Robert Lee Brewer, senior content editor of Writer’s Digest

    April 12, 2014

      NA:  You are a senior content editor at F + W Media.  Could you talk a little bit about your editing position?  What it entails? RB: My main job is handling the Writer’s…

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  • This Monday at KGB: Scott Hightower + Jeffrey Harrison

    April 11, 2014

    Scott Hightower + Jeffrey Harrison Monday, April 14, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors open at 7:00 pm Reading starts at…

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