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Thoughts on Poetry and Disaster [by Nicole Cooley]
“What is poetry which does not save Nations or people?” –Czeslaw Milosz, “Dedication” This Sunday morning, at the end of their final 3am shift, the National Guard left New Orleans, after more than three…
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AW-Seeing
A catalogue of who I got to see, talk to, drink with, grope, fondle, praise… (Thursday-Sunday, in no particular order.) Jessica Piazza, Reb Livingston, David McDonald, Amy Lemmon, Kim Addonizio, David Yezzi, Ernie Hilbert,…
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AW-Peeing, or
A catalogue of what I drank: (Thursday through Saturday. All drinks post-6 pm.) 3 Bourbon and Cokes 2 Jack and Cokes 2 Jack and Diet Cokes 1 Appletini (yeah, I know) 2 White Wine…
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Significant Mother (by Joy Katz)
A regular column on poetry and motherhood It's Monday, and I'm tired of being a woman poet. I was on a panel at AWP in Chicago about women-centered mentorship and influence. The new anthology…
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“Isaac Bashevis Singer” [a prose poem by Jim Dolot]
Isaac Bashevis Singer keeps touching the same hot stove of mysticism and raising his palm to show it blackened and painless as a printed page. It is all the more frightening because we are…
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Stealth Post on Thomas Carlyle [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
I used my mad mac iphoto skills to bump the color and contrast so it can almost be read. The quotes, there are sort of two here, are from Thomas Carlyle's book On Heroes, in…
