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This just in: A Few Seats Left – Grab ’em if you don’t know your chastushkas – and even if you do . . .
Sonnets and sestinas, sijo and sapphics, tanka and triolets, cinquains and chastushkas-poetic form is a gift to the reader and a challenge to the writer. For centuries, poets have written in structured forms…
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On the Importance of Literary Friendships (by Leslie McGrath)
We learn many things about being writers while in graduate school and our skin grows thicker through the rough polish that work submission gives us, but where do we learn about how to establish…
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“I knew a guy once . . . ” The Bill Hayward / Marinov Dance / Redress Films “The Intimacies Project” [by Stacey Harwood]
©billhayward Is the audience for dance engaged in a kind of group voyeurism? What is really going on when we watch young and highly trained thoroughbreds push their bodies to unnatural extremes for our…
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Rick Moody, David Lehman on Bob Dylan, and . . . Cher? Wednesday, January 19, 7-9 PM. 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street New York, NY 2011
The back story: Once upon a time William G. Scheele, photographer and equipment/stage manager for The Band and Bob Dylan from 1969 to 1976, snapped a red-tinted picture of Dylan and The Band jamming with,…
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Three Interesting Things Happening in Poetryland (by Leslie McGrath)
I’m coming to the end of my guest blogging here and realize, despite some verrrrry long posts, that I’ve still got a list of ideas, trends and influences on poetry that I’ve not yet…
