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This just in: Calling all former CETA artists! Tell your story.
"CETA made me a working artist and meant that I got up each morning with an arts agenda . . . It gave me a sense of the artist's place in the community." Bill…
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Happy Birthday, Richard Wilbur, 90 years old today!
Mind Mind in its purest play is like some bat That beats about in caverns all alone, Contriving by a kind of senseless wit Not to conclude against a wall of stone. It has…
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Happy Birthday, Robert Lowell (by Laura Orem)
Today marks the 94th birthday of Robert Lowell, one of the most influential poets, both personally and artistically, of the mid-20th century. He was difficult, brilliant, lascivious with female students. He was tormented by…
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Dickinson’s Letters, Racism in Poetry Today [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Darlingest Bleaders, How I have missed you. And what obstacles I have had to defeat in order to at last rearrive here, panting, on the grass. Well, but, I’ve had mental adventures of…
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Thinking about Amy’s post . . . [by Stacey Harwood]
Amy Lawless put up an interesting post that I admire. She's clearly working something out and is willing to put herself out there while she does, so I'll do the same. She's prompted these…
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Monday @ KGB: Shanna Compton, Peter Davis + Jennifer L. Knox
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present: A night with Bloof Books poets! Shanna Compton, Peter Davis + Jennifer L. Knox Monday, February 28, 2011 Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez and Michael Quattrone Reading…
