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The Deletionist Dances... - I've been intrigued by the new erasure software/site The Deletionist which enable you to go to any webpage and then create erasure texts out of it. Wheth...3 hours ago
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Steve Benson improvises poems consisting entirely of questions - On February 8, 2003, performing at the Bowery Poetry Club without prepared text or notes, Steve Benson improvised a long poem composed entirely of ...5 hours ago
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Trip & Return at Printer’s Ball 2013! - We’re counting down the days (hours, minutes!) to July 27th at noon-sharp when Printer’s Ball 2013 launches. This year the event will be an all-day affair ...7 hours ago
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I'm reading at the Queensland Poetry Festival this summer - I'll be appearing at the Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane, Australia this August 23 - 25. The festival program is now live on the QPF website. Canad...14 hours ago
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four new poems at the avatar review - I have four new poems--"Condition of the living room," "Liner notes: so sharp, so pencil-thin," "Slow burn: serious," and "Statement"--now online as part ...14 hours ago
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Where Writers Write: Janice Deal - Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write! *Where Writers Write* is a weekly series that will feature a different author every Wedne...15 hours ago
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R. M. O'Brien - FIRST DATE The city is wartorn— Birds cycle thro' their songs like car alarms. We eat pollen w/ insectoid silverware & vomit EASTERN EUROPE in botanic garde...22 hours ago
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Get To Work - *Sit in sun. Sun goes behind cloud. Look at watch. Notice that second-hand does not always point directly at little marks on dial. Sometimes it does, tho...23 hours ago
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A Happy Anniversary - We enjoyed a nice date over a delicious breakfast out this morning with Iris asleep in the sling, and had a good time thinking of how far we’ve come since ...1 day ago
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Poem from 1999 by Todd Swift - *Sometimes I think that being a Protestant* is very dull. Rather like working as a librarian, at Hull. Or not at all the same, instead something flat...1 day ago
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Pierre Joris: from DIS/ASTER [Part 3 of RIGWRECK], with an Author's Note - *Disaster: not thought gone awry* *when all this first started * * my body broke out into real bad rashes* * my eyes my ...1 day ago
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Life Stories #35: Andrew McCarthy - Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Chris Sanders Photography In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast series where I interview memoir writers a...2 days ago
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Drive like a Bastard - “Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive ...3 days ago
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Thanks, Joe Hill - Joe Hill has written some incredible stuff (see my review of N0S4A2 here) and now he’s written an answer to my question about how he stays focused: I used ...3 days ago
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The Darkness Of Our Own Frightened Hearts: Reading Chapel Road in Brussels - . [This text was written when I was in residency at Passa Porta, Brussels in January 2011.] *Part One: Ondine versus The Unionists* I was at a party ...4 days ago
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Tanis MacDonald on Kathryn Mockler’s Onion Man - Onion Man, Kathryn Mockler. Tightrope Books, 2011. by Tanis MacDonald The individual poems of Kathryn Mockler’s Onion Man, which hover between a novel in v...5 days ago
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a review of “Please No More Poetry” - “Please, No More Poetry is a crucial collection that not only looks back on a brilliant career, but looks toward the future of the medium itself…”: Eric Sc...5 days ago
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Dusk Til Dawn - * * *Dusk Til Dawn* You imagine the moon filling a bedroom window as the towering screen of a drive-in movie theatre high above a winter field strewn wi...1 week ago
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Book Review: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck - Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck Cheeky Frawg Books, 2012. Fiction Collection. Review by Alex McElroy. It is tempting, but reductive, to label the stories in Kar...1 week ago
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Very short fiction summer - Mother literature has four distinct children: the novel, stout, stable, liable to bagginess; the novella, a trimmed bush filled with ... Continue reading2 weeks ago
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Aphoria - I am no proselyte for poetry as a category of human effort. I would no more advocate for poetry than I would love or dinner or shimmying. People will pursu...2 weeks ago
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FORGET-ME-NOTS - For you, I have dug and tend this garden, but I am the sort of gardener who looks with smug accomplishment upon the heap of weeds just pulled, only to ...2 weeks ago
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Alex Dimitrov - Alex Dimitrov is the author of* Begging for It*, published by Four Way Books. He is also the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City....2 weeks ago
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Japan Itinerary - Tomorrow I leave for Japan for five weeks. My bags are 90% packed and I am dithering only about what my electronic connectivity options should be but my ...3 weeks ago
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The Rotary Dial: The Indestructible Old Man - The Rotary Dial is a downloadable journal edited by Alexandra Oliver, and I’m glad to say the May issue has a poem of mine called The Indestructible Old Ma...4 weeks ago
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Show Your Work! My Creative Mornings Talk - It was my pleasure to give the inaugural talk at the first Creative Mornings here in Austin last month.5 weeks ago
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Down in the depths - A tweet from August C. Bourré (@FishSauce) earlier today sent me on a hunt for the review I wrote of Warren Ellis’s debut novel, Crooked Little Vein, which...4 months ago
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Microreviews: Bryan Borland's "Less Fortunate Pirates" and Aaron Smith's "Appetite" - Generosity can be an unfortunate trait in the poetry world. One of the most exciting new presses, Sibling Rivalry Press, was created by Bryan Borland; he...4 months ago
Journal and Press Blogs
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The Trillium Book Awards were handed out on Tuesday at a dinner in Toronto. Michael Chan, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport presented the awards ...6 hours ago
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July/August 2013 Michael Szczerban State: New York A heavy-hitting agent who for twenty-two years has represented some of the biggest litera...6 hours ago
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“I wish that my government had asked me to write poetry about immigration policy, about Idle No More, about Canada’s complicity in the Middle East, the Enb...9 hours ago
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The new issue of Modern Haiku includes the favorites from the winter-spring 2013 issue: Haiku on the rim of a soap bubble all this -Mark Brager Senryu math...15 hours ago
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A journey through Egyptian fiction starts with the 1919 revolution against the British and ends with the Arab spring Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz Palace...21 hours ago
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Sociologist Neil Gross dispels the myth that college campuses are overrun with lefty East Coast intellectuals1 day ago
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The pianist Jeremy Denk will transform an article for The New Yorker into a book for Random House.1 day ago
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Watching movies is a sentimental education. They work through images and change the way we feel, especially if they come at an impressionable moment. Stran...2 days ago
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Descanters, readers, writers and the curious alike! Summer is approaching, the barbeques are sizzling and it’s time for another launch! We are ready to ste...1 week ago
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Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill presents poems from each of John F Deane’s previous five Carcanet collections alongside the substantial new title sequence. T...5 weeks ago
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The new issue of Verse (Vol 29 #s 2 & 3) is out, with portfolios of poetry and fiction by Joanna Howard Jasmine Dreame Wagner Sarah Goldstein Shannon Tharp...2 months ago
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*Photo by *Edgar Barany *heartsick . . . the foxgloves of my childhood out of reach* *Kirsten Cliff* ** * * *Nokhur graveyard - photo by **Carpetbl...3 months ago
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