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  • Enter to win every volume of The Best American Poetry from 1988-2018. Deadline 10/7/2018

    October 4, 2018

    This just in from Scribner via Instagram:  Visit @ScribnerBooks on @Instagram and enter for your chance to win! https://t.co/hUCKOyyeIp pic.twitter.com/osTOdusyCP scribnerbooks🌠🌠🌠#PoetryDayGiveaway🌠🌠🌠 It's National Poetry Day in the UK, and we're joining in with a…

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  • Next Line, Please: A Wardrobe of Excuses [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    October 3, 2018

    This week on Next Line, Please, quizmaster David Lehman doles out yet another prompt worthy of our full attention: Do the clothes we wear have things in common with masks? Do they in some…

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  • Cindy Van Acker’s “Zaoum”: a force of possibility, liberation & life [by Tracy Danison]

    October 3, 2018

    Circle within circles (1923) I left Cindy Van Acker’s “Zaoum” thinking of Kandinsky… and…  Cindy Van Acker is thought one of the moving spirits in the transmuting of abstractions into dance performance gold and…

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  • Fashion and Beauty with Poetess Vinny [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    October 1, 2018

    Dear Poetess Vinny, I'm about to publish my first volume of poetry with a small press and am going to be traveling to give readings. I'm in my early 30s and most of the…

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  • What We Don’t Talk about (by Nin Andrews)

    October 1, 2018

      It’s Monday, and I’m scrolling down my iPhone, reading headlines as I work out at the Y.  The top stories are the sexy ones. The hot question of the morning: Will the FBI…

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  • Epigraph of the Month: James Baldwin, “Another Country”

    September 30, 2018

    from James Baldwin’s Another Country: They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most…

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