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September 12 Reading to Honor Poet Barbara Brackney
From Jason Schneiderman, comes this announcement for a poetry reading to honor his former student Barbara Brackney. I hope you will join us. Here's what Jason has to say about Brackney's poems: Barbara’s poems…
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Going On and Coming Up
If you haven't yet saved the evening of September 23 for the Best American Poetry 2010 launch reading at the New School, do so now. It's going to be fantastic, with Guest Editor Amy…
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“The New Hybridity”
"Just because it’s arbitrary doesn’t mean it’s meaningless," That's how Jeff Johnson begins his new essay on the late Leslie Scalapino [pictured] and Thalia Field. The essay is called "The New Hybridity" and you…
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Mad Men by Jim Cummins
Two men walk through the boardroom. Each one carries a spear; each wears a mask. Each man is afraid of his own death, but is no less willing to strike, to rend, kill. Each…
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MFA Rankings – Not Again!
It's hard to believe that Poets and Writers returned to the same poisoned well that it drank from last year for a ranking of MFA programs but it did, with the same misleading and…
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In-patients by Amy Lemmon
Ed note: We posted last week about Bob Bowen, who was killed recently in a hit-and-run accident, leaving behind his two children Bobby and Stella, our friend the poet Amy Lemmon and countless others…
