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  • Simon Fujiwara’s “Revolution” installation and the ironies of image at Lafayette Anticipations [by Tracy Danison]

    October 31, 2018

    Photo: Courtesy Lafayette Anticipations As in any virtual amusement park, Mr & Ms Public must take a ticket and patiently wait their turn to ride Simon Fujiwara’s empathy machine, now at Lafayette Anticipations in…

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  • Poet as Travel Guide [by Tami Haaland]

    October 31, 2018

    For the next few weeks, I’m living in a small apartment in Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart, Germany, and on the weekends, I’ll be teaching a brief seminar on Montana literature at Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg or…

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  • Next Line, Please: An Epigraph in Search of a Poem [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    October 31, 2018

    What prompts a poem into existence? Dr. Lehman suspects that many poems are byproducts of reading, coming across an arresting line, an interesting image, a noteworthy character, and we think of it as a…

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  • Tami Haaland, Guest Author Beginning October 31

    October 30, 2018

    We'd like to welcome back Tami Haaland as our guest author. Tami will be posting weekly during her stint teaching at a small school near Stuttgardt, Germany. Tami is the author of three poetry collections, What…

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  • Interview with Tony Towle [by Jess Matuozzi]

    October 26, 2018

    [Guest Author Note:  Thank you to Jess and Tony for this fascinating interview and to Hanging Loose Press for permission to reproduce the poems discussed in it!] JM: Your poetry taps out a wry…

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  • John Ashbery’s Visit with High School Students [by Andrew McCarron]

    October 25, 2018

    [Guest Author Note: Scholar and poet Andrew McCarron has kindly shared with us this transcript of a delightful Q&A session between the late great John Ashbery [pictured left] and Andrew's high school students at…

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