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On Community [by Tracy K. Smith]
Today, I’m thinking about community. The people who constitute home for us. The ones who keep us from getting lost, losing track of where we are going or who we are in the process…
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Freud Quiz # 26
If Freud and Dante held a summit meeting, where would it be? (a) The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 1962.(b) Greenwich Village (c) With Ulysses and Diomedes in the Eighth Circle of The Inferno(d)…
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The Church of Poetry
Sometimes I think that poetry is a kind of church. The church I’ve been looking for all my life, where nobody tries to sleuth out whether you’ve been sinning all week, and where the…
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Going There [by Tracy K. Smith]
Last night I watched Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life.” A friend had urged me to see it because she sensed a strong affinity between what it is reaching and yearning toward and the questions…
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Ben & Amy Read Chapbooks: Lazy Summer Video Review Edition [by Ben Mirov and Amy Lawless]
We put this post together in like ten minutes. Adam Day, Badger Apocrypha (PSA Chapbook Award chosen by James Tate) Construction: It’s got the classic PSA style look. Really well put together nice low-gloss…
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Tracy K. Smith, Guest Blogger June 5-11
photo(c)Nick Barberio This week we welcome Tracy K. Smith as our guest blogger. Tracy is the author of three collections of poetry: Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, May 10, 2011), Duende (Grayworlf, 2007) and The Body's Question (Graywolf, 2003). Since 2005, she…
