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Contributor’s Note to “Joe Adamczyk” by Mitch Sisskind
Mitch Sisskind has arrived in NYC from LA in order to take part in tomorrow night's Best American Poetry 2013 launch reading at the New School (Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th Street. 7:00 PM.…
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Poetry Is [by Joshua Mehigan]
Not long ago, collecting poetry aphorisms for an essay, I visited Google’s main search page, put the cursor in the box, and typed poetry is Google helpfully suggested…
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Hump Day Highlights
Jennifer Michael Hecht on suicide in the military and how to stop it. The American Scholar is a consistently smart and relevant journal, filled with compelling fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. The current issue arrived…
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Poetry-Famous [by Joshua Mehigan]
Poets nowadays have their own sort of fame. That is, they are famous and not famous. The celebrated poet’s work may affect thousands, tens of thousands, or in extremely rare…
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This Is Just to Say . . .Happy Birthday William Carlos Williams
To honor the 130th anniversary of William Carlos Williams's birth, Harvard Library offers a virtual poetry reading. For background and to listen to WCM, go here. (Warning, if you're at work, the reading of…
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F. R. Leavis Leaves His Fielding on the Field [by Leon Elson]
This,according to the London Kazoo of Books, isF. R. Leavis,characteristically unyielding:"Life's too short to waste on the novels of Henry Fielding."
