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The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Time Passes Today I woke up and stretched for a bit while listening to a dharma talk on pain. How boring. Sometimes I wonder how to write these posts. Maybe that’s a way of…
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Poets and the Tarot [by Benebell Wen]
Left: Yeats at his London apartment. Right: A sketch of Yeats by Pamela Colman Smith. Source: Biography of Pamela Colman Smith. Among the personal effects of poet and Nobel Prize winner William Butler…
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How I Lost My Virginity [by Terence Winch]
Ed. Note: We have been interviewing poets who are ex-virgins about how they lost theirs. Our inspiration: this poem by Terence Winch from his new book "This Way Out" (Hanging Loose Press, 2014). Keep…
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Calling All Tattooed Poets!
Kazim Ali, 2013 Tattooed Poet Since it's inception in 2008, we here at the Best American Poetry blog have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array…
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Benebell Wen, Guest Author February 3-7
This week we welcome Benebell Wen as our guest author. Benebell Wen is the pseudonym for a certain literary journal editor, writer, corporate lawyer, and fashion designer. Benebell is also a professional tarot reader and…
