Rubber Soul: The Word
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I said to my friend, “love” was the one we both missed, w knit stockings,
red gloves, apple-pie eyes. She ran away from booze, smoke, our beds. She
was t...
notes & things | election night edition
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It's been warmer than usual, but still rainy and endlessly gloomy amid the
shorter days. Today, it felt like a needed a lamp on even in the early
afterno...
New Book, Prunes and Prisms
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I just signed my half of a new book contract with Lavender Ink. They are
publishing the book *Prunes and Prisms/Prugne and Primi* that I have
collaborative...
Books Read 2023
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1. High Magic- Frater U.D.
2. New American Writing #25
3. The Householders- Tara Mcdowell
4. Macular Hole- Catherine Wagner
5. The Dark Half- Stephen K...
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Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada
an omnipoetics manifesto, *from* Pre-face to a Hemispheric Gathering of the
Poetry & Poetics of the Americas “from ori...
In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP
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We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the
next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The
editor of N...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
A Poetics of the Zeitgeist by Amy King
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Please check out my latest pandemic-inspired essay on poetry and capitalism
at Jacket Magazine – EXCERPT: Poetry is a low-stakes celebratory game in
the la...
Confession 2
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while people are starving, wealth
is a crime. I am not willing to argue.
if you are hungry, no laws apply.
glass breaks easily. weapons
can be made from a...
“Not wholly useless, though no longer used”
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One of his last poems, published posthumously. Longfellow was never one for
violent contention so I find it hard to take his analogy too seriously, but
the...
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I had a dream last night that I was in a car with Larry Eigner and Allen
Ginsberg. Larry was driving. We drove over wooden slats in a muddy field
and got s...
HOW TO LOVE THE OUTLAW
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At a panel on Polish poetry, with the poet and artist Grzegorz Wroblewski,
one of the audience members, clearly annoyed, said he was sick of the idea
of th...
Getting past the words
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You Are
There
To them
What they see
And not
Because there are others
Elsewhere observing
Something totally
Different from
Where
Now dining table
Too small
F...
Border Poetry
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My 13th post at the Harriet Blog:
[Artemio Rodriguez, linocut]
In 2006, I spent two of the best months of my life in Marfa, Texas, thanks
to a residency f...
8. Summer camp
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Last weekend I picked up my younger daughter from her “performing arts”
summer camp in the Catskills; yesterday my older daughter got back on a
Greyhound ...
Update
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Please suspend any donations. Last Friday after two days of tests, scans,
bone-marrow extraction and so on, our Doctor came in the evening to say the
cance...
Red Berries: A Story from British India
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A messenger from my great-aunt's house, that's my grandfather's sister,
walks into the house and tells me I have been invited to eat grapefruit and
that I ...
Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions
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Aaron Smith's new collection, PRIMER, is due from Pitt on October 5 of this
year. Here's a dead-on comment from Tracy K. Smith about Aaron's work: "*Aaron ...
DAY 25: Annie Won!
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Annie Won operates at the intersections of mind, body, and spirit, more
particularly as a poet, yoga teacher, and medicinal chemist in the Boston
area. Her...
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* Albuquerque Exercise [new]*
She whooshes down like a wintry air curling around the corners of a mall,
throws the café door wide and announces,
I'm here fo...
obligatory syllabus post
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KRAFT OF FOETRY, version fall 2014
Last year when we revised the craft curriculum, we designed a two semester
craft sequence for first year students. The f...
rage d / differx. 2014
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dedication illegally band here's bevy drinking should warburg direct ed by
the map turns london that of frank musician he books novella sense jan mo
b...
Kalamazoo XLIX (2014)
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ViaHere are some of the sessions and parties I'm planning to go to at this
year's Kalamazoo, in case anyone wants to stalk me and/or just have fun.
Also, ...
New Writing
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I wrote a piece about the critical response to Eleanor's Booker Prize
winning novel The Luminaries for The Pantograph Punch. Which reminded me
that there a...
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*MINOR AMERICAN AND YESYES BOOKS PRESENTS**:*
*A BOOK PARTY FOR *
*TANYA OLSON'**S*
*BOYISHLY*
* WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013DOORS OPEN: 7pm PERFORMANCES ST...
Next Big Thing
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QUESTIONS: What is the working title of the book? I’m not sure. The file on
my computer is named “Pupils” but I’ve been thinking about the title
“Mirage Re...
Hey! Update your links!!
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Lemon Hound has a whole new life...see Volume 2 and keep checking back:
more content added weekly. VOLUME 2* SAY DEMOCRATIC POETRY FOR ME POETRY
Jonathan ...
ntamo on nyt www.ntamo.net
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ntamon tuotteiden esittely ja verkkomyynti on siirretty kokonaan
osoitteeseen www.ntamo.net (entinen kirjantamo.net). Kaikki tässä blogissa
elokuuhun 2012 ...
Signal
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from a place where there is time, and I will gather poems for a new issue.
I don't know when in the future that might be, but I hope to get there,
eventually.
New Titles by No Tell Poets
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*China Cowboy* by Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
*Reveal: All Shapes & Sizes* by Bruce Covey (Bitter Cherry Books)
*TRISM* by Rebecca Loudon (Hors...
Frank Sherlock on Etel Adnan
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Much thanks to Exit Strata's Lynne Desilva-Johnson for the opportunity to
share one of my great influences & one of the world's great writers.
You can rea...
Reading in Portland
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I mean, I can't imagine anyone still checks this thing, but just in case:
I'm going to be in Portland in a few days! And I will be giving a reading
with Sp...
The DIY Demos are back
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I moved servers about a month ago but neglected to refresh the location
info for the photos in the DIY chapbook demos. I didn't realize people were
still...
25. “I want to get embarrassed / so much.”
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The fact of this blog is that nothing would ever happen here if it could
not happen all of a sudden. The prohibition against liking and not-liking
is al...
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"In The Language of the Self Lacan begins by characterizing the space of
the therapeutic transaction as an extraordinary void created by the silence
of the...
Mrs. Maybe Has Moved
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Hello to you and you and you,
Mrs. Maybe has moved to a new website:
http://mrsmaybe.wordpress.com/
All of our business, and your business will be conduct...
I Have Gone
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I have gone here.
To be reborn in GOOGLE.
This blog was cast out of the kingdom of Google. For no good earthly reason.
But I'm out of tags here anyway now...
Tip out that old tea
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"A blog may have at most 5000 labels."
New places:
Fiction and miscellaneous: jolindsaywalton.blogspot.com.
Poetry: sadpresspoetry.wordpress.com.
Poetry an...
Giovanni Arrighi, 1937-2009
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There have been few books of history and social theory--not quite sure
where I can place it in terms of genre--as important as The Long Twentieth
Century. ...
TINDERBOX LAWN by CAROL GUESS
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KATHRYN STEVENSON Reviews
*Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess*
*(Rose Metal Press, Brookline, MA, 2008)*
Carol Guess turns insides out, and her new poetry coll...
H.D.'s "Helen"
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Ron discusses H.D.'s short poem "Helen" today. It's interesting to hear the
perspective of a poet coming across this piece for the first time, as he
is; ...