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  • That’s hot, man!

    July 19, 2011

    "She started a heat wave, / by letting her seat wave, / and in such a way / that the customers say / that she certainly can / Can-can!"  

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  • Traveling Libraries [by Jake Adam York]

    July 19, 2011

    I’m relocating to Atlanta in a few weeks. The plan is to work on a book—cultural studies meets poetics—about the ways contemporary art thinks about Civil Rights History. I’m shipping a few boxes, but…

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  • The Dog Ate My Homework (by Stacey Harwood)

    July 19, 2011

    Dear Emma, What can I say?  I put The Odyssey aside to finish The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout.  It's not his best so it has taken me awhile to close in on the…

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  • This just in from Jim Cummins: The sestina challenge heats up!

    July 18, 2011

    As DL noted here, Laura Barkat at the T.S. Poetry Press site has designated July as Sestina Month.  Though I've never met Laura, we got to talking online and I felt emboldened to "sestina-challenge"…

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  • Your Book Here [by Jake Adam York]

    July 18, 2011

    Last week, my wife and I snuck away into the mountains. I packed only one book. The plan was to read the land—penstemon, aster, Indian paintbrush, lupin, aspen, lodgepole, spruce—and come back to the…

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  • Introducing “terrain” a great blog from an unlikely place by Stacey Harwood

    July 17, 2011

    Several weeks ago, I was clicking around looking for an image to go with a post when I came accross terrain, a blog put out by Julia Fogg, a landscape architect in the UK. …

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