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When Reality Recedes & the Imagination Takes Over: CK Williams [by Martha Silano]
I was lucky enough to recently stumble upon Kevin Young's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series (Young is the curator), and specifically CK Williams’ 2008 reading for this series. If you don't know about this series,…
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Questions and Other Answers: An Imaginary Q & A [*by* Allison Campbell]
The Moorman Symposium starts tomorrow. To prepare for the panel discussion on New York School poetry, I thought it would be good to sit our visiting poets — Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel, David Lehman,…
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Hey, YOU: Don’t Stop Writing Up a Squall Just Because It’s May! [by Martha Silano]
Some of us will wake on the first day of May with a giant sense of relief. Why? Because we know we can attend to the laundry, bills, dishes in the sink, and our…
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Indie Poetry Bestseller List for the Second Quarter 2014
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 April 27, 2014. For information on more titles, please…
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Wordsworth’s sonnet on the sonnet (“Nuns fret not. . . “)
The subject of many poems is poetry itself, and here is a great example: Wordsworth's sonnet on the sonnet, which dwells on the paradox — dear to poets' hearts — of freedom within,…
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Point Counterpoint: David Lehman and Amy Gerstler on Mad Men Season 7 Episode 3
L to R: Jim Cutler, Joan P. Harris (nee Holloway), and Bert Cooper On Monday, April 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM David Lehman wrote: Dear Future Professor of "Mad Men" Studies, This is…
