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Burning Down Suburbia: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Sjohnna McCray’s Rapture
RaptureSjohnna McCrayGraywolf Press, 2016 Sjohnna McCray’s debut collection, Rapture, celebrates the lives fountaining through a single life and transmutes the eddies of those lives into an aria. Like the blossoms seen falling through a…
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Do male poets have crushes on female poems? [by David Lehman]
Do male poets have crushes on female poems? Maybe, but the reverse is also true, and the old canard that male poetry editors like it when the women talk dirty implies bad faith on…
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“Wolf Howls” [by Virginia Valenzuela]
You can’t swallow the lump in your throat so stop trying.Start breathing, you’ll see, eventually it’ll soften.It’s dark at night, the birds are quiet, except for one that keeps on crying. You start with…
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NSFW: “Hotter Than July: Hands Off My Cuntry” Group Show at Undercurrent Projects in the East Village
Boy Scout Salute, Mike Cockrill, 2009 This just in: Our friend Elisha Wagman writes to tell us about an exciting group show on view at Undercurrent Projects in the East Village. Here's what Forbes…
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New: All-Poet news and views on the visuals arts
When our (metaphorically) broad-shouldered poets get to grips with the visual arts, reader depth perception should likely improve “Piano tuned”. “The Chair”. A seat at Le Bal perdu, 2, rue Charles Graindorge, Bagnolet, France.…
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Bernaducci Meisel Gallery and Poets & Artists Magazine Present: FORMATION January 12-February 25, 2017
Sylvia Maier, "The Bread Cutter", 2008, oil on canvas, 44 x 72 inches Poet, painter, and editor Didi Menendez writes to tell us about FORMATION, a group show presented in conjunction with a…
