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One Chinese Poet’s Tribute to Seamus Heaney (Eleanor Goodman)
Homages to Seamus Heaney have been pouring out from his friends and admirers across the world, including, it turns out, China. On August 30 and soon after, my poet friends here in Beijing and…
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Joshua Mehigan, Guest Author September 16-20
This week we welcome Joshua Mehigan as our guest author. Joshua's poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry, which awarded him its 2013 Levinson Prize. His second book, Accepting the Disaster, is forthcoming from Farrar,…
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Save the Date and Spread the Word: The Best American Poetry 2013 Launch Reading September 19, 2013
The New School 66 W. 12th Street, New York, NY Tishman Auditorium 7:00 PM Free With Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Denise Duhamel and The Best American Poetry 2013 contributors * Kim Addonizio…
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An Early Experience with Outreach on the Prairie [by Tami Haaland]
When I was a girl growing up in north-central Montana, I spent many hours exploring the prairie and the coulees surrounding the Marias River. Meriwether Lewis named it “Maria’s” River after his cousin who…
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David Remnick on Howard Cosell: “Speaking of Sports”
David Remnick proves that in addition to his manifold other literary and journalistic skills he is an ace book reviewer (The New Yorker, November 28, 2011, pp.75-78). He has explained that in media parlance the…
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“Happy Birthday, Claire Donato!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
CLAIRE DONATO (9/12)Amor vincit omnia,The Prioress’s motto.With a very happy birthday toThe poet Claire Donato.The panda bear | is unaware;Koala dunno squatto.With a very happy birthday toThe poet Claire Donato.Snitches’ britches burnin’, which isWhat…
