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Next Line, Please: Reverse Scrabble [by Virginia Valenzuela]
"Reverse Scrabble" is a prompt invented last week by our literary ring master, David Lehman. The aim is to derive as many words as possible from one given polysyllabic word and then integrate them…
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WHEAT OR SNAKES [by Andrei Codrescu]
Shortly after the fall of the Romanian dictatorship in 1989, a friend of mine, the poet Ioana Ieronim, took me to see the Peasant Museum in Bucharest. It was a place full of folk…
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Poet Spotlight: Adeeba Shahid Talukder [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018) and her book Shahr-e-jaanaan: The…
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Poet Spotlight: Jennifer Minniti-Shippey [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Jennifer Minniti- Shippey is the Managing Editor of Poetry International literary magazine, Director of Poetic Youth programs, and a lecturer at San Diego State University. Her most recent collection of poetry, After the Tour,…
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Kristina Marie Darling, Guest Author February 25-March 8
This week we welcome back Kristina Marie Darling as our guest author. Kristina is the author of thirty-two books, including Look to Your Left: The Poetics of Spectacle (Akron Poetry Series, forthcoming in 2020);…
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Next Line, Please: This Was Glory, Too [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Five weeks ago, the members of the Next Line, Please collaborative set out to build a brand new poem, stanza by stanza, brick by brick, but lo and behold, something even more fantastic happened. We…
