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“Happy 38, Paige Ackerson-Kiely!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
PAIGE ACKERSON-KIELY (10/21)HA HA HO HO YER BOOTSWE ARE ALL OF US IN CAHOOTSHEE HEE HO HO THE WAITRESSWE THINK SHE SAY SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUSHA HA HO HO IT’S PAIGE!SHE THIRTY-EIGHT AUTUMN IN AGEAND THE…
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Daniel Nester, Guest Author October 21-25
This week we welcome Daniel Nester as our guest blogger. Daniel is most recently the editor of the about-to-be-released The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody 2013). Among other books, he's also author of the…
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A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 3)
Pet The new teacher takes me out:orchestra, revolving restaurant, lesbian bar.I burn my leg on the exhaust of her bike.Next she comes around with a bottle of ginand her admiration for Olivia Newton John.Mortified,…
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Announcing David Lehman’s “New and Selected Poems.” In bookstores November 5, 2013
“Very few writers can actually shape how you see the world. David Lehman is such a writer.” —Robert Olen Butler “Inventive and often winningly sincere…Lehman is candid as well as ironic—sometimes, both at once.…
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The “Slate” Diary #5 (Bennington College, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1998) [by David Lehman]
Anne McCarty and I hold our “exit meeting” — the one that faculty members are supposed to have with the five students they’ve worked with during the last six months — at the Blue…
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Call Me Right Away When You Get This [by Amanda Smeltz]
The epistle is a poetic form I am enamored of. I come to know it first through biblical epistles, those…
