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Poet Spotlight: Julia Story [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie (Sarabande Books), the chapbook The Trapdoor (dancing girl press), and the chapbook Julie the Astonishing (forthcoming in March 2019 from Sixth Finch Books). She is a…
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Dmitri Shostakovich — Waltz no. 2 [with quotes from the composer]
"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something." "If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth." "What can be…
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Poet Spotlight: Terese Svoboda [by Kristina Marie Darling]
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is most recently the author of Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship, her seventh book of poetry, and Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet. She has…
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“What’s Happening” [by David Shapiro]
What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget! I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I…
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Big Doings Coming Up At the Russian Samovar: Ruth Padel, Andrey Gritsman, David Lehman, and Vlad Mayakovsky
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, at 6 PM, at the Russian Samovar (256 West 52nd Street, NYC) Intercultural Poetryproudly presents Ruth PadelDavid LehmanAndrey Gritsman&Vladimir Mayakovsky, the yellow-vested champion of Russian modernism Ruth Padel (above…
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Poet Spotlight: Traci Brimhall [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Traci Brimhall is the author of three collections of poetry: Saudade (Copper Canyon Press), Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press). Her next collection, a hybrid of essays…
