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Larry Sawyer Reviews “The Best American Poetry 2017”
I approached reviewing this book with a stratagem—blinding the names—and then I read the poems randomly. It was liberating to concern myself only with the lines and not to focus on the authors and…
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Educators Roundtable: Dean Rader & Marie Fuhrman [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Dean Rader publishes widely in the fields of poetry, American Indian studies, and visual/popular culture. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His recent…
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Squibs 214-223 [by Alan Ziegler]
214. In college, a friend told me he overheard someone say, “I don’t like Ziegler’s type but I like Ziegler.” 215. An essay on the electronic media: You can't tell the time by looking…
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Autumn Haikus from “Next Line, Please” [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Just when I think I've learned all the tricks up his sleeve, the ever impressive, devilishly clever David Lehman finds a way to wow us, yet again! In this week's installment of Next…
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Contributor Spotlight: Ernestine Hayes [by Kristina Marie Darling]
In anticipation of Tupelo Press’s forthcoming anthology project, Native Voices, I’m pleased to continue a series of posts honoring Indigenous poetry from North America. But first, I’d like to say a few words…
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Gorilla Glue (by Mitch Sisskind)
My friend died and a few days laterIn a dream called me on my cell;‘Hey how are you doing?’ he said.‘I can’t complain,’ was my reply,‘And you? How is it being dead?’A brief silence…
