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Are There Iconic Contemporary American Poems? A BAPB Roundtable [by Dean Rader]
Earlier in the year, a student in my Contemporary American Poetry class asked me if there were any "great" contemporary American poems. I told her there were many great ones, including, for example, everything…
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“An Epiphany”: poem by Nicole Santalucia, art by David Lehman
An Epiphany arrived in the mail today a gouache something poisonous Vermilion it couldn't be An extension of a poet like orange paint in the hands of a mailman traveling to the year 1994…
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Is San Francisco to Poetry What New York Is to Fiction? [by Dean Rader]
Rice-a-Roni. The delightful situation comedy Full House, starring Bob Saget and the Olsen Twins. Fog. Journey. Fisherman's Wharf. Earthquakes. The Gap. That Mark Twain quote about the coldest winter that Mark Twain did not…
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Monday @ KGB: Michael Klein & Sean Singer
Michael Klein's books are: then, we were still living, poems; Track Conditions, a memoir; The End of Being Known, a memoir; and 1990, a book of poems which tied with James Schuyler to win…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Joel Allegretti
Gaston Leroux Frankenstein was the creator, but the name in time came to refer to the creation. Were someone to identify a human being as God, the inevitable response would be ridicule, if…
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Dean Rader, Guest Blogger November 7-13
This week we welcome Dean Rader as our guest blogger. Dean has published widely in the fields of poetry, American Indian studies, and popular culture. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won…
