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Free Verse Vs. Formalism: A Recipe for Tedium by Sydney Lea
Traveling around my little home state as its poet laureate, I’ve especially enjoyed that audience members outside academia tend to ask truly basic questions, which after all represent concerns that everyone feels on contemplating…
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Sydney Lea, Guest Blogger April 1-5
This week we welcome Sydney Lea as our guest blogger. Sydney is Poet Laureate of Vermont. His most recent collection of poems is I Was Thinking of Beauty (Four Way Books, 2013). Six Sundays…
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How will you celebrate? [by Shanna Compton]
National Poetry Month begins tomorrow, as readers of this blog surely know. It's also the tenth year of NaPoWriMo, during which millions (OK maybe hundreds) of poets attempt to write a poem every day…
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Musings [By Lera Auerbach]
I am in the middle of writing a book – collection of random thoughts, musings, daily fragments. Here are some of them: On self: Wondering wanderer in search of wonder, always lost, never found,…
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Happy Birthday Best American Poetry: Launch readings in Boston (April 4) and NYC (April 11)
Click cover to pre-order: Launch readings hosted by David Lehman and Robert Pinsky and featuring poets included in this volume: April 4, 6:00 PM: Metcalf Building, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Second…
