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Literary Blogs
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Segue Intros Spring 2012 - 2/4 Peter Gizzi It has been a sorrowful weekfor poetry, but I am determined that in this introduction to Peter Gizzi, whohas known in recent times his sha...3 hours ago
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Poem by Todd Swift for World Poetry Day - *The Ailment* What got there, got there Then it stayed. *Like glue* A doctor implied. *Like prayer* Argued another clad like a father Black as g...3 hours ago
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Creaturely Smegma: Richard Hell Reviews Ariana Reines - Why does this feel unreal? It’s a great match. Richard Hell reviews Coeur de Lion and Mercury, both by Ariana Reines, in Bookforum’s current issue. Hell al...6 hours ago
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Review: Under the Poppy - Read 2/14/12 - 3/7/12 4 Stars - Strongly Recommended to readers who don't get their panties in a bunch over a few bawdy puppets Pgs: 360 Publisher: *Small...9 hours ago
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Dine and Drink where Man Men partied - I’d say Mad Men counts as literary. The characters, script and plotlines are addictive. Add mesmerizing style and ambiance, and you have one of the best s...11 hours ago
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Reviews in print - Just got my contributor's copy of Arc 67, in which you can find my brief review of D.G. Jones' retrospective volume The Stream Exposed with all its Stones. A...11 hours ago
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Hunter Kennedy - Four pages from the new issue of *The Minus Times*. [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] The Minus Times Collected: Twenty Years / Thirty Issues (1992–2012) will ...11 hours ago
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12 or 20 questions (second series) with Alex Leslie - *Alex Leslie* writes fiction. Her chapbook of microfictions *20 Objects For The New World* was published by Nomados (2011) and her book of stories *People ...13 hours ago
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1 Second a Day - 1 Second Everyday - Age 30 from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo. Fabulous. I love this video.When I teach introduction to poetry I assign my students the task of wr...13 hours ago
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Keep Away from People Who Belittle Your Ambitions - *Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become grea...22 hours ago
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Among Others by Jo Walton - Jo Walton’s Among Others begins with a story that is already over. Twin sisters in South Wales who can see and communicate with fairies were brought to bat...1 day ago
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Jerome Rothenberg: Travel Notes, 2008, into an Unknown City - *for Diane on her birthday 20.iii.12* 1 *into an unknown city where we take a bus with high sides* with windows wide *&drive through highways suburbs & t...1 day ago
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Haiku Horoscopes 004 - by Jonathan Ball, Registered Fraud Aries (March 21 – April 19) Nobody likes a Guy who steals their car for fun Start to wear a mask Taurus (April 20 – May ...2 days ago
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Two quotes from Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the creation of Time Warner by Connie Bruck - . Connie Bruck writes [about Steve Ross]: Because he was a scholarship student, Ross was given the job of taking the younger children to Central Park e...2 days ago
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Spring Things To Do - This spring I will forsake all donations in the form of soft compliments. Those that I have received already I will convert into hard currency. I will be m...3 days ago
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Russell Wangersky & the Pros/Cons of Realism - Mark Anthony Jarman has a review of Russell Wangersky's new short story collection, Whirl Away (Thomas Allen, 2012), in today's Globe & Mail. It's a fine r...4 days ago
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Writers reading themselves through modernism, circa 2000 - Back in the fall of 2000 we invited nine poets to “read through” their relationship to a modernist poet. They talked and read their own and that m...4 days ago
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Poetry Round Up, Winter/Spring 2012, Part I - A quick spotlight on new poetry collections you may have missed this past season! Rose McLarney, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, Four Way Books ...5 days ago
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Imitatio is the best form of... - In a post not long ago, I categorized Kenneth Goldsmith as a "Son of Ben." After all, as I said, it was Ben Jonson who ... introduced the word "plagi...5 days ago
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Life Stories #3: Rachel Shukert & Rev Jen - This episode of Life Stories, my podcast series of interviews with memoir writers about their lives and the art of memoir, was recorded in front of a live ...1 week ago
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Time and Tide: The Fraser River Poetry of Tim Bowling - Of all the poets of his generation, Tim Bowling’s poetry is the most unabashedly linked to place. His poems cast a wide net over history and subject matt...1 week ago
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SXSW 2012: Everything is a Remix, So Steal Like An Artist - Polaroid via The Impossible Year At SXSW Saturday afternoon Kirby Ferguson and I showed clips from his video series Everything Is A Remix and then had a co...1 week ago
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Reading in Calgary - I’ve just confirmed that I will be reading as part of the launch of filling Station #52 at Shelf Life Books (100, 1302 – 4th Street SW) March 23rd at 7:00p...1 week ago
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Peter Norman reviews The Reinvention of the Human Hand - Poet Peter Norman (author of *At the Gates of the Theme Park*) has reviewed my last book for The Mansfield Review. Here's a sample: The poems in Reinventi...1 week ago
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Threshold Songs - One of the great pleasures of editing the Constant Critic is that my fellow critics consistently bother me with what they say in their reviews—providing th...3 weeks ago
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Danielle Cadena Deulen - Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. She is the author *Lovely Asunder*, winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize (University of Arkan...4 weeks ago
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Retail 2012: Mansfield Press - Something of a consistent source of surprise, the little press that is based in Toronto, but does its poetry from Cobourg. The list this season is decidly ...5 weeks ago
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The New Blogging Poet Aggregated - This account will expire in 8 days so I'm allowing most of what's here to disappear from the Internet forever but some of my works can be found at BloggingP...2 months ago
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Philadelphia Magazine PROVES they are the voice of the 1% - “This is a classic slingshot.” --my grandmother Please feel encouraged to call the Philadelphia Magazine office and demand a public apology from them for ...3 months ago
Journal and Press Blogs
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The U.S.-based James Beard Foundation has announced the shortlist for its 2012 book awards, and two popular Canadian cookbooks have made the cut. The Art o...10 hours ago
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In Sarah Manguso’s memoir *The Two Kinds of Decay* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), the author writes, “suffering, however much and whatever type, shri...10 hours ago
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* **Photograph by** Carolyne Rohrig* * * sunlight on the water between the angler and the river the line so thin * Gary LeBel* *Photograph by Dob...10 hours ago
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In "The Good Father," a young man is accused of a political assassination and his father seeks to clear his son's name.11 hours ago
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drafthorse is a biannual (Feb/July) online publication of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art.Editor Denton Loving, a...14 hours ago
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You know the old joke. A man walks into a bar… In Kate Reuther’s hilariously grim short story the man walks into the bar over and over again. He walks in...22 hours ago
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China covers a vast territory, and is far more ethnically and culturally diverse than many outsiders assume. Chris Livaccari, Director of Education and C...1 day ago
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The books our critics are reviewing this week, your suggestions of topics we should cover and authors we should be talking about Welcome to this week's b...1 day ago
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*Threshold Songs* by Peter Gizzi. Wesleyan University Press, $22.95. *Reviewed by Thomas Fink* In the aptly titled *Threshold Songs*, Peter Gizzi´s fifth ...1 day ago
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By: Kathleen Gallagher Medium: Old postcard, leather strips, bathroom grouting and paint for clay (sinopia), plastic flowers, pictures of Madonna from ma...2 days ago
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*THE SURPLUS MAN* I am the one who has not been killed yet at war, by earthquake or street accident. What shall I do with these years that wave before me ...2 days ago
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The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture by Charles Jensen (MiPOESIAS Chapbook Series) The World Will Deny It for You ...3 days ago
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Here in the office, we want our Descant friends and family to have fun! That’s why we’ve spent so many sunny Spring days cooped up indoors to put together ...1 week ago
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Some of you might just now be getting out of the AWP fog/detox and I can hardly blame you for the fun you've had. I about lost my mind on the way home as i...2 weeks ago
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Come and join us for the launch reading of the new issue of Magma on Monday 5th March at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, as part of the Coffee House ...3 weeks ago
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1913 Press is excited to be launching a brand new collaborative book--"Conversities" by Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy--at AWP this week. Please join us...3 weeks ago
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