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  • A Massacre in Arkansas: Facing Love and History [by J. Chester Johnson]

    February 27, 2014

    The map depicts important scenes of the Elaine Race Massacre. A year ago, Green Mountains Review Online featured, in a four-part series, Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre. The article, which I wrote, describes a…

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  • Book Preview: Emma Bolden’s medi(t)ations

    February 26, 2014

    Emma Bolden is the author of Maleficae, a book-length series of poems about the witch trials in early modern Europe (GenPop Books, 2013), and medi(t)ations, forthcoming from Noctuary Press. She’s also the author of…

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  • Hump Day Highlights by Stacey Harwood

    February 26, 2014

      Megin Jimenez, who has written some of my favorite BAP blog posts, is Poet of the Month over at the Inquisitive Eater. Sharon Mesmer recounts her "Mindful Nervous Breakdown" in a revealing series…

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  • First Book Review: Leah Umansky’s Domestic Uncertainties

    February 25, 2014

    In Leah Umansky's beautifully written and poignant first book, Domestic Uncertainties, readers will find failed courtships, nineteenth century novels left in ruins, and the "nomenclature for what is left." Presented as an extended sequence…

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  • “And I will know each trembling of a leaf”: John Ashbery’s Translations from the French [by David Lehman]

    February 24, 2014

    Just as the sheer quantity of John Ashbery's literary criticism surprised even the poet's fans (see his Selected Prose, 2007), so too the poet's translations from the French: they fill two volumes, one devoted…

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  • Tonight at KGB: David Lehman + Mary Jo Salter

    February 24, 2014

    KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Mary Jo Salter + David Lehman Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman…

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