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  • Monday, Feb 20th [by Sandra Simonds]

    February 21, 2017

    I think that today was marked by extreme feelings of anxiety and shame. I posted yesterday’s post to the Best American Poetry blog in the morning around 8am or 9am today and then linked…

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  • Is Phone Rage a Defence? A Recurring Fantasy [by Stacey Lehman]

    February 20, 2017

    Phone rage: for those times when someone who is texting bumps into you and you trip so you grab their phone and drop it in the sewer. 

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  • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, editors of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars and its new book series, Dispatches Editions

    February 20, 2017

    DD: Dispatches Editions grew out of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. Can you tell us a bit about the genesis of both the website and the press? MB: They Jes’ Grew. I was going to…

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  • A Supposedly Horrible Thing I’ll Probably Do Again—Part One [by Sandra Simonds]

    February 20, 2017

    A. Introduction to my experiment B. Reflection on Sunday 2/ 19, Day One       I like formal writing experiments. A few weeks ago, I was a guest poet at Wayne State University in Detroit…

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  • Sandra Simonds Guest Author February 20-24

    February 19, 2017

    This week we welcome back Sandra Simonds as our guest author. Sandra is the author of six books of poetry: Orlando, (Wave Books, forthcoming in 2018), Further Problems with Pleasure, winner of the 2015…

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  • Elegy For Tim Buckley in Four Takes [by Alan Ziegler]

    February 18, 2017

    In the scarlet light of Valentine’s our paper hearts are blind                from “Valentine Melody” by Larry Beckett and Tim Buckley (1966) (Tim Buckley was born on Valentine's Day 1947; he died of a drug overdose…

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