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George Bilgere’s Poetry Town, Elissa Gabbert’s “The Essay As Realm,” and Grace Cavalieri’s Artwork
These days I don’t want to read the news. I don’t want to turn on NPR. I don’t want to check my phone and read all those annoying political texts. Instead, I want to…
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“Society Must Be Defended” [by Jerome Sala]
Society Must Be Defended from this poem. Its inconsequence is a problem.A problem Society doesn’t know about.Problems known, as we all know (don’t we?)can be harvested, like souls in need of repentance.But the uncounted…
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Two poems by joanne burns [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Another prose poem this week by another virtuoso of the form. joanne burns (who has previously been featured on the BAP blog here) has published fourteen collections of poetry since her debut Snatch appeared…
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Charles Bukowski — Great Poems of the World, Episode 13, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
from "Some comments on my last book of poesy" – Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) why do you drink?I saw you at the racetrack but I didn't bother you.I'd like to renew…
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R.I.P. Robert Coover (1932-October 5, 2024) [by Stacey Lehman]
Ed. note: I just learned that Robert Coover died on October 5, 2024. I read and loved several of his books. I had a terrific chapbook of his short-short stories "In Bed One Night…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Seventy-Nine): Cate Marvin [by Angela Ball]
BLACK UMBRELLA What to do stationed beneath an awning curtained falling with rainwater but read books on dinosaurs? Better to peel open tins of tuna for the stray catsnestled wet beneath porches of the…
