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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: December 27, 2023
Earlier this year, Souvenir Spoon Books published Gregg Shapiro’s Refrain in Light. With its sly nod to the 1980’s album by the Talking Heads, Refrain in Light embraces the historical geography of place, remembering what has come…
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Three Poets: Elizabeth A. I. Powell, James McCorkle, & Rick Bursky [by Nin Andrews]
Last week I started a series called A Virtual AWP, featuring poets that I would have loved to have met or heard read or lecture, whose books I'd have bought and had signed, had…
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Avid Reader: On Bob Gottlieb [by David Lehman]
Did you know that in college Richard Howard was known as Dick Howard? Or that Robert Gottlieb, one of the great names in American book publishing, got his first job (at Simon & Schuster)…
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Eleven Questions for Eleven Poets, including Dana Levin, Max Ritvo, Tony Trigilio [by Alan Michael Parker]
When offered a guest appearance on the Best American Poetry blog, I decided not only to write a couple of articles that I’ve been mulling over, but also to celebrate new books of poems…
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Ben Jonson, “A little winter-love in a dark corner”
Waste of Time.—What a deal of cold business doth a man misspendthe better part of life in! In scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little…
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On Poetry and Miracles [by Nin Andrews]
Tis the season of miracles—Hanukkah, Christmas, Santa Claus. My grandchildren can barely contain themselves. “Grandma,” they ask, “Is Santa really going to come down the chimney?” One of them suspects that Amazon might be…
