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Contemporary Canadian Poetry [by Eduardo C. Corral]
This week I’m featuring the work of Stevie Howell. A Gospel That picture’s somewhere still: First Communion, 13 girls in lace and satin “Like a Virgin” frocks, legs crossed man-style under frills, floral hairpieces…
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The Bow-Tie, The New York Times, and You [by David Lehman]
"How Would a Book like Harold Bloom's 'Western Canon" Be Received Today?" The NY Times Book Review raises the question in its issue of March 23, 2014. The occasion: the twentieth anniversary since Harold…
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“Happy Birthday, Rae Armantrout!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
RAE ARMANTROUT (4/13) Armantrout! Armantrout!RAH RAH RAHWe’re takin’ all the garbage outAnd AH HA HA With a hatch-an-egg, hatch-an-eggHowdja like me now:—I want ’em both to hibernateAnd have ’em show me how With a…
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Nick Courtright, Guest Author April 14-18
This week we welcome Nick Courtright as our guest author. Nick is the author of Let There Be Light (Gold Wake, 2014), called "a continual surprise and a revelation" by Naomi Shihab Nye, and…
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Let the World In: David Lehman Reads at Keystone College [by Macaulay Glynn]
David Lehman doesn’t think poetry should be lazy. His collections Evening Sun and Daily Mirror are a testament to this: both were the children of a five-year commitment to writing a poem a…
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Congratulations to Ron Padgett on Winning the L.A. Times Book Prize
We're pleased to learn that Ron Padgett's Collected Poems (Coffee House Press) has won the prestigious L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry. Here's an excerpt from David Lehman's recent Publishers Weekly review of Padgett's…
