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The Ideas of Pure and Impure Poetry [by Edward Hirsch]
(Ed note: This week Edward Hirsch is presenting terms from his new book, A Poet’s Glossary, a compendium of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, folklore, rhetorical terms. Find his previous post here. sdh)…
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Announcing the Second Annual Library Hotel Poetry Month Haiku Challenge!
We're thrilled to once again be working with the Library Hotel and Tweetspeak on promoting its annual poetry month Haiku Contest! The Library Hotel is a NYC boutique hotel in a great location with…
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Bob Dylan Forecasts the 2016 Presidential Election [by David Lehman]
"Hillary Clinton is Gladys Knight, and all the rest of them are the pips." — Robert Zimmerman (alias Bob Dylan). See Peter Nicholas, "Clinton Freezes Rest of '16 Field" in the Wall Street Journal,…
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Bad Line Contest [by David Lehman]
In honor of Susan Sontag, who introduced the logic of camp (something so bad that it's good) into the cultural discourse, may I propose a bad line contest? It is remarkable how many bad…
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A Poet’s Glossary: Baroque and the Plain Style [by Edward Hirsch]
This week I will be presenting terms from my new book, A Poet’s Glossary, a compendium of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, folklore, rhetorical terms. It is a repertoire of poetic secrets, a…
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Start Spreading the News: The Marfield Prize National Award for Arts Writing
If men (and women) die every day for lack of what is found in poetry – or dance, or the visual arts, or film, or music – how then to make the world aware…
