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“Hour” by Christian Hawkey with drawings

by Simone Kearney March 23, 2010 Art

Sometimes when I happy get

by Stuart Krimko March 1, 2010 Animals

Sometimes when I happy get I turn on my television set and disappear into its glow like a pixelated crow I flap my wings so pure and black and feel like there’s no going back inside the tube I’ll stay forever consider thrown the simulacrum lever if my mother comes home and turns it off [...]

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Only Boring People Get Bored

by Ben Fama March 1, 2010 Mythology

Sunday evening I encountered this artifact created out of the weekend’s leftovers. I had been showing family around who had never been nyc before. That meant three miserable days of walking in the rain while forcing myself to be cheerful. This stream or river or rainbow or spittle-barf of umbrellas was an affirmation to me [...]

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Lookin’ for a Few Good Poetry Book Reviewers

by Poetry Blog Editors March 1, 2010 Poetry

Poetry Blog is looking for experienced book reviewers to blog about new contemporary poetry titles. Over the course of the next few weeks, we’ll be updating our review copies list from national poetry presses. If you’re interested in writing a review, write us an email and let us know. [email protected] Currently, up for grabs: CHRISTOPHER [...]

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In My Beginning…

by Evan Hansen March 1, 2010 Poetry

How does one choose which poem should be first in a manuscript? Ben Lerner’s new book, , begins with something resembling a love poem. Joshua Beckman’s latest book, , which I’ve been enjoying lately , uses a kind of apostrophe: Dear Angry Mob, Oak Wood Trail is closed to you. We feel it unnecessary to [...]

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The Ill-Wrought Urn? A Literary Critical Debate in Truth & Beauty, Part 1

by Adam Fitzgerald February 13, 2010 Philosophy

Let’s begin with a recording of Ode on a Grecian Urn recited by Richard Howard, which was taken on 2/12/2010 through my iPhone. Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our [...]

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SONNETS by Bernadette Mayer

by Allison Power February 12, 2010 Poetry

I thought I’d share some Mayer sonnets, as Valentine’s day is almost upon us. Love nor the sonnet is standard in Mayer’s world, and she highlights the possibilities/ multiplicities of poetics and of love. After all, desire doesn’t always follow a neat and tidy pattern. SONNET So long honey, don’t ever come around again, I’m [...]

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by Zachary Pace February 11, 2010 Poetry

I want to begin praising If There is Something to Desire by Vera Pavlova, translated by Steven Seymour (her husband, her muse! how romantic, how intrinsic!) released last month from Knopf, her first collection published in English. These one hundred poems go so far so terrifically fast (almost all under ten lines) that Pavlova seems [...]

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Alexander McQueen, RIP

by Stuart Krimko February 11, 2010 Fashion

I’m don’t consider myself a comfortable elegist (is anyone?), but reading of Alexander McQueen’s death this morning forces me to take up the mantle. I’m not a huge fashion-buff, but I made the walk past the McQueen store on 14th Street a highlight of my daily commute when I worked in Chelsea. His clothes seemed [...]

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Chirp, Memory

by Sarah V. Schweig February 10, 2010 Poetry

“Houses have crumbled in my memory as soundlessly as they did in the mute films of yore.” —Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory ~ Miss Romano’s fourth grade class was gathered on the rough green carpeting listening to a small blonde girl with a turned up nose recite from memory “I Hate Homework” by Shel Silverstein. The [...]

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Writing Prompt Patter

by Joe Weil February 5, 2010 Arts & Society

I worry about graduate students. When intention, and goals, and focus outstrip the accidental, the possibility of falling into exactly what you need to trip over, you ought to take stock: what do you just allow to happen? Some students will say, “Easy for you. You have a job.” They’re right. But I never planned [...]

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Poetry

“Hour” by Christian Hawkey with drawings

Sometimes when I happy get

Only Boring People Get Bored

Lookin’ for a Few Good Poetry Book Reviewers

In My Beginning…

The Ill-Wrought Urn? A Literary Critical Debate in Truth & Beauty, Part 1

SONNETS by Bernadette Mayer

more correspondence

Alexander McQueen, RIP

Chirp, Memory

Writing Prompt Patter

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