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This Condensery [by Michael Schiavo]
I’m always intrigued when poets put down technology. Blogs, Twitter, the Internet, email, even computers themselves come under attack from poets who believe that in order to keep themselves pure they must not just…
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David Lehman’s Foreword to The Best American Poetry 2011 Featured on Poetry Daily
"What makes a poem great? What standards do we use for judging poetic excellence? To an extent, these are variants on an even more basic question. What is poetry? Poetry is, after all, not…
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Exile On Main Street [by Michael Schiavo]
I’d like to say that people . . . See, see, they used to ask me: “So how you . . . you guys think you’re gonna change the world?”
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ee cum[mings] [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Does everyone know this ee cummings poem? It will rock yer glockenspiel, so read it. XXX i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious…
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Monday @ KGB: Tina Chang + Angie Estes
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Tina Chang + Angie Estes Tonight! October 3 Hosted by Megin Jimenez and Matthew Yeager Reading starts at 7:30pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th…
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Poets House and Statue of Liberty: Partners in Tweets [by Nicholas Shapland]
The poet Emma Lazarus may not have envisioned Twitter when she wrote the sonnet that graces the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor but it is that sonnet, The New Colossus,…
