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The Revisionist by Douglas Crase & Landlocked by Mark Ford (by Rob Crawford)
Here we'll look at two important books of poetry that share the unlikely status of being unavailable from an American publisher. Firstly, Douglas Crase's The Revisionist is a truly exceptional collection of poems. When…
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KGB – Matthew Zapruder & Eileen Myles (by Rob Crawford)
Excellent readings at KGB tonight by Matthew Zapruder and Eileen Myles. An especially full house listened to their work with close attention—prompting Zapruder to note in appreciation between poems, "I really like how quiet…
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Hooray for Helen Forrest
FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945. Since then, the twelfth of April has been a somber day in America. Imagine the mirthless merriment in Hitler's bunker when Goebbels came to…
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Doug Lang’s 70th Birthday (Terence Winch)
Susan Campbell, Doug Lang, Terence Winch. Cafe De Luxe, D.C., April 10, 2011 Today marks the 70th birthday of my good friend Doug Lang, who came to…
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Matthew Yeager + David Lehman at KGB Bar [by Megin Jimenez]
March 28, 2011. A few personal highlights from an evening too packed for me to give a just chronicle: Matthew Yeager launches his reading with a long poem, "Sleep Mothers," which makes everyone spontaneously…
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“Courtship” [by Mark Strand, whose birthday is today]
There is a girl you like so you tell heryour penis is big, but that you cannot get yourselfto use it. Its demands are ridiculous, you say,even self-defeating, but to be honored somehow,briefly, inconspicuously…
