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Happy Birthday Ern Malley! [With an introduction by Thomas Moody taken from David Lehman]
Yesterday marked the 105th birthday of Ern Malley, who remains one of Australia’s most internationally renowned poets and our greatest ever literary hoax. After I disclosed that I'm Australian in our first ever email…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 15, 2023
I’ve never read anything quite like the poems in Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle which is published today by Curbstone books. I’ve never read anything quite like their poems and that is a good thing…
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I Love Me, Vol. I [by Lewis Saul]
I LOVE ME, VOL. I Pull up.Was it a hat I saw?No, it is open on one position. Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era?Do not refer…
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Columbia To Host Richard Howard Tribute March 31st
<<< Columbia University will be holding a memorial for Richard Howard, the greatly beloved poet, teacher, editor, and mentor, and on March 31, 2023, at Miller Theatre. For those of you not familiar with…
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The Year Kay Ryan Went to AWP (To Cover It): 4 Excerpts
A few excerpts from Kay Ryan's "I Go To AWP" (written for Poetry, in 2005, the year AWP was in Vancouver) <<< Simone Weil would have starved herself to death before she would have…
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Lawrence Raab: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________ Original Sin That was one idea my mother always disliked. She preferred her god to be reasonable, like Emerson or…
