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Said Disraeli to Gladstone. . .
At a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease." Disraeli replied, "That all depends, Sir, upon whether I embrace…
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Poet Spotlight: Cole Swensen [by Kristina Marie Darling]
It's truly an honor to introduce this new work by acclaimed poet Cole Swensen. Here, she offers a complex and gorgeously lyrical phenomenology of perception, deftly interrogating the ways that language shapes one's experience…
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Fifteen Years On: Bezanson, Bibbins, Deming, Lehman, Yeager Remain in Fashion
In 2007, the Italian magazine Io Donna devoted a section of their men's issue to what New York poets were wearing. Here's the evidence. Top row: Mark Bibbins (left), Matthew Yeager. Second row: David…
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“The real movement is through ideas”: Beth McDermott & Maya Sonenberg in Conversation [by Kristina Marie Darling]
In writings on her time as editor of The Dial, Marianne Moore coined the term "conversity" to describe the inherently dialogic nature of poetry. In that spirit, I'm pleased to present the following conversation…
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Kristina Marie Darling, Guest Author, August 1-5, 2022
This week we welcome back Kristina Marie Darling as our guest author. Kristina is the author of thirty-six books, which include Stylistic Innovation, Conscious Experience, and the Self in Modernist Women’s Poetry, forthcoming from Rowman &…
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Alicia Jo Rabins: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Photo by Alicia J. Rose _________________________________________________________ Sunday School Look around this cafe, everyone is…
