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I am not the hero of my own life by [Alex Norelli]
I am the unsympathetic villain a thirty year old boystill dreaming a treethrice felledre-growing from a stumpin the graveyard more stubborn thana crossI’m a frog yearningfor a fly thick swamp an empty buswith a…
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Revisionist Dream [by Lera Auerbach]
In memory of Maxine Kumin, here is a short song I wrote on her poem "The Revisionist Dream". This is a performance by Angela Denoke and Roger Vignoles at the Kölner Philharmonie. The Revisionist Dream…
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Reading Tarot for Writing [Benebell Wen]
Pictured: Alligo and the Cestaro brothers’ Tarot of the New Vision (Lo Scarabeo) California poet Kay Ryan, sixteenth United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, used tarot cards as writing prompts when she…
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Quarterly List of Poetry Best-Sellers from IndieBound Independent Bookstores
Compiled by the American Booksellers Association, and based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States, for the twelve-week sales period ending February 2, 2014. For information on more titles, please…
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A Tarot Reading for David Lehman [Benebell Wen]
On January 30, the eve of a New Moon, housed in Aquarius, I read tarot for Best American Poetry’s very own David Lehman. The King of Swords was selected for his signifier card. In…
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Inside the Cave Canem East Coast Rent Party
Rachel Eliza Griffiths sends in this good news about the Harlem style rent party she hosted on February 1 in her Dumbo Sky studio, with its fabulous view of downtown and glamorous guests: We…
