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A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 2)
It’s Time, It’s Time New Year clocks on over fog valley,temperate Tibetans account for contributions. Suburbs struggle and sweat through a summerscented with mumbles and deceptions. Fat detractors and software spruikers expire,the paddockbashers steam…
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Happy birthday, Richard Howard [by David Lehman]
If you’re 84 today that means you were 47 when we metYou came to read poems and give two lecturesOne on “The Art of Digression” the other on “The ArtOf Hesitation” I think but…
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Review: Tina Chang at The New School’s Poetry Forum with David Lehman [by Nora Robertson]
David Lehman and Tina Chang. photo (c) Eduardo C. Corral Last Wednesday’s Poetry Forum at The New School was a rare opportunity to watch David Lehman and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang in conversation…
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This Just In: Support for the Open Letter to the Poetry Foundation
Yesterday afternoon we posted Sandra Simond's Open Letter calling for the Poetry Foundation to make a financial committment to poets in need. You can read Sandra's letter here. Within a few hours, the letter…
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Career Trajectories: On the Hill, Over the Hill [by Johnny Chinnici]
R.A. Dickey would have retired at 30, if not for reinventing himself. I’ll be turning 30 next month, the age at which most ballplayers’ skills begin to erode. But what about poets? Do…
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Open Letter to the Poetry Foundation: Share the Wealth [by Sandra Simonds]
To the Poetry Foundation: This is an open letter asking the Poetry Foundation to make a strong financial commitment to aid poets in our communities facing financial crises and a lack of adequate healthcare.…
