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All’s Fair: An interview with Chris Fritton of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair (Shanna Compton)
As readers of this blog surely know, there's a lot going on this month, poetrywise. I'm among the folks who find this exhiliarating, instead of somehow annoying or overwhelming. The bursting forth of poems…
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“What haven’t you liked recently?” [by Howard Altmann]
This post arrives from Montreal where it all feels a little gentler, a little calmer, the light of spring burning through the snow, crumbling banks of white slowing traffic on side streets, spraying slush…
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Poets & Writers Abandons Annual MFA Rankings as Bad for Applicants, Apologizes [by Stacey Harwood]
Upon receiving an audit report from the International Association of Survey Research Scientists, Poets & Writers magazine will cease publication of the so-called ranking of MFA programs. The rankings had become a…
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James Franco and David Lehman to Host Reality TV: America’s Next Top Poet [by Stacey Harwood]
Fox network announced today that it will headline its lineup of fall programming with "America's Next Top Bard." In the pilot, contestants are asked to memorize and recite a soliloquy from Hamlet, to write…
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Contemporary Canadian Poetry by Eduardo C. Corral
This week I’m featuring the work of David O’Meara. So Far, So Stupid All those selfies I posted look really great. So spontaneous. Arm tentacled through bad light past the frame, an umbilical toward…
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Congratulations to University of Arizona Poetry Center
We've just learned that the University of Arizona Poetry Center is getting much deserved recognition. The Poetry Center is the proud winner of a 2014 Governor’s Arts Award! Since 1981, arts organizations have…
