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  • In a Subjunctive Mood: A Playlist for (Stuck) Writers by Abdul Ali

    December 6, 2016

    On those days when I am aimlessly scratching about in my notebook, music saves me. The lyrics of a song get the ceiling fan inside my head spinning. And before you know it, I’m inside…

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  • Letter from a Young(ish) Poet by Abdul Ali

    December 5, 2016

    If I had it to do all over again, I would do it exactly as I have done it: jumping both feet in the deep end without a lifeboat. To my knowledge, I am…

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  • Abdul Ali, Guest Author December 5-9

    December 4, 2016

    This week we welcome Abdul Ali as our guest author. Abdul is the author of Trouble Sleeping, winner of 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, Plume,…

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  • For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Ruben Quesada

    December 3, 2016

    Glasgow ruins, by A Tangled Mind in Motion     FALL FEELING     (from Las nubes by Luis Cernuda), translated by Ruben Quesada   Upon the old ruins it rains,                 The autumn still green, Odorless,…

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  • December 5, 2016: Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar – David Lehman + Elizabeth Powell – 7-9:00 pm

    December 2, 2016

    85 East 4th Street  New York, NY   David Lehman is the author of many collections of poems, including New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013), Yeshiva Boys (Scriber, 2011), When a Woman Loves a…

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  • An Interview with Dante Di Stefano (by Nin Andrews)

    November 29, 2016

    NA: This is such a beautiful book, and a welcome gift in this dark time. But before we talk about it, I wanted to ask you about the anthology you are putting together in…

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