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Rebecca Hazelton*

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Kyle McCord*

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Ray Gonzalez*

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Fire On Her Tongue is now available--the first anthology of contemporary women’s poetry available exclusively for electronic platforms--featuring Kate Greenstreet, Jane Hirshfield, Alicia Ostriker, Patricia Smith, Yours Truly, and many others. Kudos to editors Kelli Russell Agodon & Annette Spaulding-Convy! Go get yrs.

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Happy Holidays~*

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Issue 9!*

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Thanks, W.S. Merwin

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Jen Tynes*

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For Bette, When She is Older, On Flying | Erica Jong, Ph.D. | Blog Post | Red Room

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Bernd Sauerman*

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Dream of the Unified Media: LOCUSPOINT: New Haven, March 31, 2009: Of her city, editor Suzanne Frischkorn wrote , "That poetry would bring me to New Haven and how often poetry would provide cause to return w...

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I received my contributor's copy of Because I Said So: Poems on the Happiness and Crappiness of Parenthood this week. My poem, "Suspended," appears in this anthology along with work by my pal Simmons Buntin and a bevy of very talented poets. Buy a copy and support a wonderful cause!Because I Said So: poems on the happiness and crappiness of parenthoodAs you can tell by the title, this collection

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Ashleigh Lambert*

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Dream of the Unified Media: LOCUSPOINT: Seattle, 30 September 2006: Of her city, editor Rebecca Loudon wrote, "Seattle is a city known for its rain, its lush green beltways, its flourishing theater and music...

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Urayoán Noel*

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Amanda Auchter*

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Annah Browning *

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Jim Daniels

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Ravi Shankar Launches Deepening Groove In An Evening of New Poetry Writers and Readers Series Thursday, August 25, 2011 | 6 PM $5/FREE Real Art Ways’ Members http://www.realartways.org/ Hartford, Connecticut – Real Art Ways’ Writers and Reader Series is pleased to announce an evening of new poetry with acclaimed poet, Ravi Shankar, who will launch his new book Deepening Groove, winner of the

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n+1: Money

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My contributor's copy of Puerto Del Sol which includes five of my poems from "Cuban Polymita"! Looking forward to reading poems by Mary Biddinger, Oliver de la Paz, Carolyn Guinzio and many others.

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Sandy Longhorn *

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My chapbook, American Flamingo is available on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iBooks and on your computer with iTunes.*

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Amit Majmudar*

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Mary Biddinger!*

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Well, well look what I found....Listen to “Exilio,” featured in our Summer 2006 issue, 28.1.This was recorded during AWP 2008. Obviously impromptu answer to the question at the end, but still a nice surprise to find.

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live! *

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Carolyn Guinzio*

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What a wonderful surprise, Serena Agusto-Cox has written a lovely and thoughtful review of my first book, "Lit Windowpane." You can read it here.*

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Anti-‘s new featured poet is Trey Moody*

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I am the proud owner of an established garden. Now I can sit back and watch the show.Happy Spring~*

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The talented and generous Justin Evans has announced that his first book Town for the Trees has been released -- I ordered mine. You can get your copy here.*

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My poem "When My Granddaughter Asks" appears in the new Printer's Devil Review along with work by Norah Piehlh, Cat Ennis Sears, Christine Gentry, Kate Racculia, Franz Wright, Kendra DeColor, Laura Cherry, Chris Hall, Mary Beth O'Connor. Art work by Jarrod McCabe and Sean Flood. Check it out!

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Closet High School Girlfriend, by Brent Goodman*

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Wonderful news and well deserved, congratulations to Rigoberto González!

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Anti-‘s new feature is live with work from Tamiko Beyer.*

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Paul Guest, one of my favorite people as well as one of my favorite poets, is a 2011 Guggenhiem Fellow! ♥

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I know it’s not easy being an artist. I know the gulf between creation and commerce is so tremendously wide that it’s sometimes impossible not to feel annihilated by it. A lot of artists give up because it’s just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance

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Charles Jensen with three selections from NANOPEDIA.*

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My review of Simmons Buntin's wonderful new collection Bloom, appears in the current issue of Terrain~**

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Playing a doe-eyed heiress in A Place in the Sun or a hysterical alcoholic harpie in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Taylor possessed enormous talent, one thing so many current "celebrities" lack. They may have Taylor's beauty or penchant for personal drama, but few have the ability to tear up a screen like Dame Elizabeth. Over the course of her eight decades, Taylor showed us what it means to

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...a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.*

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There are skeptics, of course, including some parents, many preschool teachers, and even a few policy-makers. Shouldn't very young children be allowed to explore, inquire, play, and discover, they ask? Perhaps direct instruction can help children learn specific facts and skills, but what about curiosity and creativity—abilities that are even more important for learning in the long run? Two

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"Eduardo C. Corral graciously agreed to answer a few questions in the wake of his recent good news. Letras Latinas Blog sent him six question..."*

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Amaud Jamaul Johnson*

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Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton*

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I cannot recall a novel written by a man that was described as domestic, as if the male life within a family and household necessarily transcends the bounds of the family home, means something more profound about life itself perhaps. I have had conversations with young women writers about their fear that their novels will be considered “Chick Lit”. They are concerned about whether their titles

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I had a great time last night. Every now and then it's nice to remember that I'm *this* person also-- that I am more than the mommy who helps with the Daisy Troop meetings. Although I like that person too.Arts@Night draws a great, diverse crowd. Randall Horton is a fabulous host and has a very nice thing going over at the University of New Haven.___I'm showing my age today -- jammin' out to Janet

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What: The University of New Haven (UNH) English department will host a reading and a Q&A session with poet Suzanne Frischkorn. Students from the UNH undergraduate literary publication, "The Elm City Review" also will present their work. The event is part of the UNH College of Arts and Sciences Arts@Night program which offers learning and enrichment to the community through the

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Eduardo C. Corral is the first pick by Carl Philips for the Yale Younger Poets Series -- this news reaffirms my faith in poetry. I can't think of a more deserving poet. A poet who also happens to be charming, sweet, generous and let's not forget handsome. Congratulations, Eduardo, good on ya!*

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G. C. Waldrep *

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The audience clapped—many people in the audience clapped—and Rankine began her remarks. She said, “I don’t like to use the word ‘racist.’” She discussed how using that word immediately catapults the speaker, if black, into an “angry black person” stereotype. She described her first experience of reading the poem as one of not even anger or offense but of shock, bewilderment; as she read she asked

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Happiness, by Paisley Rekdal*

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The truth is, these numbers don’t lie. But that is just the beginning of this story. What, then, are they really telling us? We know women write. We know women read. It’s time to begin asking why the 2010 numbers don’t reflect those facts with any equity.

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Heather June Gibbons *

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I'm not one of those Luddites who thinks Facebook rots your brain or whatever, but I do think that when you're feeling down you should turn off your computer and pick up a book. Because there's nothing like literature for reminding you that other people are secretly miserable.*

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Matthew Guenette *

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My poem "Nascent" appears in the new issue of Barn Owl Review and my poem, "My Body as a Communist Country" appears in the new Copper Nickel - two of my favorite journals. Both of these poems are from my new manuscript. Yay!___In preparation for today's snow storm I bought brownie mix and cookie dough. I'm getting pretty good at anticipating what gets us through a snow day.___I love this quote.__

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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve," mused 19th-century author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Advice that wild could just as well have been dispensed by a feral saint living in a cave in the woods. And now I'm passing it on to you, Aries, just in time for the beginning of what may be your wildest year in a

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has been a good year personally & for poetry. 2010 was good to me. 2010 I'm going to miss ya. Here's to you, 2010! And since I'll be on the road for most of today & tomorrow -- Happy New Year to all of you! May 2011 bring you much joy and love. xo*

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These are Hilarious! Although, as far as I'm concerned the winner is the comment from "jumpingpiglet" at the end of A Very O.J. Christmas. I laughed so hard I cried.*

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No Tells Best Poetry Books of 2010*

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Love Song with Ruin, by Paul Guest*

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In 1964, a twenty-three-year-old poet was arrested by the Leningrad K.G.B. and charged with the crime of “malicious parasitism.” His name was Josef Brodsky. One Communist Party newspaper denounced his poetry as “pornographic and anti-Soviet”; another noted archly that he wore “velvet pants.” The authorities permitted him to testify in court, but they soon regretted their decision, and their

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My contributor copies of North American Review arrived this afternoon! My poem "Poetics" appears in this issue along with poems by Jim McGarrah, J.P. Dancing Bear, Senzana Dzakovic, Natasha Saje, Gary Fincke, Jeff Gundy and several others. I'm looking forward to some quality time with these writers.*

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21 poems by Keith Wilson, Zach Savich, Joshua Rivkin, Patty Paine, Christina Olson, Dan Nowak, Eric Morris, Jeff Mock, Patricia Lockwood, Joel Lee, Stephanie Kartalopoulos, Megan Hudgins, Elizabeth Hoover, Jennifer H. Fortin, Cynthia Cruz, Jamison Crabtree, and Michael Cantor. Plus a review of Paula Bohince by Brent House and a review of Joel Brouwer by Weston Cutter.*

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Charles Jensen adds Girl on a Bridge to his No Tell Motel Best Books of 2010 List! Dream of the Unified Media: Blame this mess: "Due to all my madness, transition, and inability to maintain a clean and orderly house this year, I left off two very important titles from ..."Thanks, Charlie, my love to you too~*

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Poem 580: Split the Lark*

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LETRAS LATINAS BLOG: A year in Poetry: 2010 (in no particular order: *

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Submissions of any genre are invited for an edited collection in memory of poet and playwright Rane Arroyo (1954-2010). His 11 books of poetry, collection of short stories, and numerous plays and performances blazed new trails in Puerto Rican / American literature in their blending of so-called “high” and “low” cultures, their frank reflections on homosexuality, ethnicity, and social class, and

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One of my favorite poets Tony Gloeggler recommends Girl on a Bridge for the holidays over at Karen the Small Press Librarian. And I recommend Tony Gloeggler to you too.*

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THAT’s what’s really unacceptable, and I believe that’s what MFA students are continuously flogged for, even by other writers, even by fucking FACULTY MEMBERS of MFA programs! Other writers flog the MFA’ers to keep that charge from coming back to them. It’s the capitalist culture at large that wants us to think Art is unjustified, or must be justified, and that to spend a few years on Art is

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One thing that was so wonderful about starting to blog back in 2004 was that it felt like being part of a movement, writers taking to keyboards to connect with each other and exchange ideas. Of course, this was before Facebook, before annual conferences became huge and numerous, before our world decidedly changed. But what I miss most about that time is the openness--we were all in this together,

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Last week a poet-friend of mine said she didn’t understand the economic crisis. It was “like way too complicated.” But she justified her ignorance on the grounds that she was a poet. So what did it have to do with her? Maybe she’s right. But I want to tell this story about the judge of a poetry contest. A true story. It happened a while ago . . . (hat-tip to Jeannine)

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The model for the MFA fiction writer is her program counterpart, the poet. Poets have long been professionally bound to academia; decades before the blanketing of the country with MFA programs requiring professors, the poets took to the grad schools, earning Ph.D.s in English and other literary disciplines to finance their real vocation. Thus came of age the concept of the poet-teacher. The poet

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Mark Yakich *

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The poet Fernando Pessoa, who wrote under several aliases, each in an entirely different style, struggled with the tangled and abundant riches of his own self, by saying that each of us is "many". Needless to say, even when he was writing as one of his "heteronyms", as he called them, there was one single authorial self in charge of his original creations, the other authors being fictions. But

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Dream of the Unified Media: Writing and Revising Poems: A Romantic Comedy: *

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Giving up your life for your child creates expectations that are likely to be thwarted as the child, inevitably, attempts to detach. Nor does such hyper-attentive parenting help children to become independent adults. Kids who never have to solve problems for themselves come to believe that they can't solve problems themselves. Sometimes they fall apart in college.

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