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Would you like a Signed Copy of Mark Strand’s New Book?

by Poetry Blog Editors March 26, 2011 Poems of the Week

If you haven’t heard yet, Mark Strand has released a new book with called . In honor of this beautiful new book, THEthe will be giving away a signed copy of this limited edition chapbook. All you have to do to “enter” the drawing for this book is make a comment on any THEthe post [...]

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Poem of the Week: Sharon Olds

by Bianca Stone December 9, 2010 Poetry Blog

Ode to the The I liked that you were small and thick, easy to recognize. I think I thought you were married to and, who was often somewhere in the sentence, holding things together, while you would be standing, a tin soldier, the rifle barrel of your h sticking up over your shoulder. I felt [...]

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THEthe Poetry: 2010 Year in Review

by Micah Towery December 1, 2010 Poetry Blog

Some Sort of Truth: Dorothea Lasky’s BLACK LIFE Hurts Like Joy

I recently learned how to use spreadsheets, and despite my own self-warnings about abstraction and its dangers, the ability to manipulate vast rows of numbers is beguiling to me. Using my newfound ability, I have created a rather uncomplicated formula to get this list of the 10 “most popular” posts in 2010. It’s too simple [...]

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More Construction Notes

by migration_test October 14, 2010 Academia

Just a few things to notice about the site redesign. 1. You can now login and comment with your Twitter, Facebook, Open ID, Yahoo, or many other accounts. In the process of this changeover, the old comments have disappeared. Fear not! They are not lost. We’re just in the process of importing them, and barring [...]

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Changes Ahead, New Contributors

by Micah Towery October 1, 2010 Poetry Blog

Some of you have noticed a few changes here and there to The The. There are more ahead: a few contributors are moving on, and some new ones are moving in. Others will continue to contribute but on a less regular basis. I would like to welcome two new contributors: and . Make them feel [...]

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TheThe

by Sarah V. Schweig March 31, 2010 Poetry Blog

The time has come to reveal (I think) the source (for those who don’t already know) of The The Poetry’s name, namely, “The Man on the Dump” by Wallace Stevens. is a link to the full text. Considering this, I wrote a little blurb to explain what this virtual forum is/might be. Here that is: [...]

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