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Mises-en-Abyme, Bly, Naive, May, Copland, Hyde.
Drawing by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of Hot Teen Slut. Night before teaching, and here's what I am up to: — I am looking up, for what seems to be the thousandth time, mise-en-abyme.…
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Cures for boredom and melancholy [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
To the Marianne Moore poem, “Poetry,” which begins, “I, too, dislike it,” I always respond, “That’s too bad, it always speaks so well of you.” I like this response for all confessions of distaste,…
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The Albany Poetry scenes, as seen through Dan Wilcox’s lens.
As a relative newcomer to Albany–we moved here from Brooklyn in 2005 when I started teaching at The College of Saint Rose–I was curious to see what the local poetry scenes were like in…
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From “Barge” [by Vincent Katz]
from “Barge” IX. Just like a poem rose the building Pure in the evening, its modern angles Highlighted by a halo of glowing cloud Backed by an evening sky with just The palest touch…
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Getting to Know: Michael Robins (by Daniel Nester)
In which we ask the same questions Teen magazine asked then-soon-to-be-pregnant teen idol Jamie Lynn Spears; see original interview here. Perhaps you’ve read the poems of Michael Robins in the best-known literary journals (Typo,…
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Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008)
Grace Hartigan and Frank O’Hara Frank O’Hara dedicated his poem "In Memory of My Feelings" to his friend, the artist Grace Hartigan. In the oft-quoted phrase from that poem, "Grace / to be born…
